Mellis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Mellis, Suffolk; first attested Joan de Melles 1327 SRSF; see also MALISE
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɛɫɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mellis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 161K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 959K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Mellis, Suffolk; first attested Joan de Melles 1327 SRSF; see also MALISE
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mellis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Mellis | 99 |
| US United States | 347 | 1 in 959K | 441 | Mellis | 195 |
| AU Australia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Mellis | 53 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Mellis | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 134 | 1 in 1.6M | 134 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Mellis | 47 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Mellis | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 11 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mellis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, habitational name from a place in Suffolk, named in Old English with mylenas, plural of mylen ‘mill’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Maol losa ‘devotee of Jesus’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, nickname from mells ‘black’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Colloquial form of mellanmål (“snack (between meals)”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anne Mellisb. 1942DEGerman watercolorist (born 1942)
- Jacob Mellisb. 1991GBEnglish association football player (born 1991)
- Louis MellisGBScottish actor and screenwriter
- Johanna Mellishistorian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 441 | #51,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #50,632 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #10,113 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #9,781 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mellis mean, and where does it come from?
- from Mellis, Suffolk; first attested Joan de Melles 1327 SRSF; see also MALISE Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Mellis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛɫɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mellis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 408 people named Mellis in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mellis.
- How common is the name Mellis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 347 people named Mellis in 2010, about 1 in 959 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mellisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mellis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.