Melnychuk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛɫnitʃək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melnychuk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Мельничук (Melʹnyčuk).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.2Kas Мельничук(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 15Kas Мельничук
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 32Kas Мельничук
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Melnychuk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Мельничук, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мельничук in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Melnichuk in PL Poland.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Ukrainian Мельничук (Melʹnyčuk).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melnychuk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #40 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Мельничук | 70 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Мельничук | 143 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,401 | 1 in 8.7K | 2.3K | Melnichuk | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Мельничук | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 234 | Мельничук | 29 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Мельничук | 14 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Melnychuk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Мельничук (Melʹnyčuk).
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)
- Aleksandr Melnichukb. 1921UAnot in their usual nameSoviet linguist (1921-1997)
- Yuri Melnichukb. 1921UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Soviet journalist (1921-1963)
- Taras Melʹnyčukb. 1938UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet
- Dmytro Melnychukb. 1943UAUkrainian academic
- Bohdan Melnychukb. 1952UAwriter and local historian
- Vasyl Melnychukb. 1957UAUkrainian football referee
- Serhiy Melnychukb. 1972UAUkrainian politician
- Andrij Melnyczukb. 1978UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian association football player
- Ruslana Melnychukb. 1986UAUkrainian writer
- Alexei Melnichukb. 1998RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey goaltender
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.3K | #1,116 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,269 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Melnychuk mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ukrainian Мельничук (Melʹnyčuk). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Melnychuk?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɫnitʃək/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Melnychuk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Мельничук in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Melnychuk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melnychuk is densest in Poland — about 1 in 8.7 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melnychuk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,401 people named Melnychuk in 2026, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Melnychuk compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Melnychuk is the 40th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Melnychuk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melnychukThe 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, “Melnychuk” — the 40th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.