Mellon

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Mellon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Méllon, Mellón

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Mellón, Mello-N

• Danish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Méllon

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Mellon 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.

• shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Meallain ‘descendant of Mealldn', a personal name that is a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• cendant of Meallan’, a personal name representing a dim. of meall pleasant. Vars.: Mellan; Mallen (see also Malin). places. Melbourne in E Yorks, is recorded in Domesday

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• habitational name from Meulan in Seine-et-Oise.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Andrew, US financier

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

• Thomas Mellonb. 1813USAmerican businessman (1813–1908); founder of Mellon Bank
• Andrew W. Mellonb. 1855USAmerican diplomat, banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector (1855–1937)
• Paul Mellonb. 1907USAmerican art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner (1907-1999)

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).

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Mellon mean, and where does it come from?

from Irish Gaelic Ó Mealldin, descendant of Mealldn, a personal name meaning literally 'little pleasant one' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Mellon?

In English /ˈmɛlɒn/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Mellon?

In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Mellon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mellon. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Mellon?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,628 people named Mellon in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.