Melyn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Welsh melyn ‘yellow’; earliest citation 1292 David ap Wronu Velyn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛʎɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melyn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
- FRFrance≈1 in 13M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from Welsh melyn ‘yellow’; earliest citation 1292 David ap Wronu Velyn.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melyn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Melyn | 33 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Melyn | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 16 | — | 1 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Melyn 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 kw, yellow
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)
- Gerard Melynb. 1657BEBelgian Augustinian preacher (1657-1734)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #14,270 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Melyn mean, and where does it come from?
- from Welsh melyn ‘yellow’; earliest citation 1292 David ap Wronu Velyn. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Melyn?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛʎɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Melyn a male or female name?
- Melyn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Melyn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5 people named Melyn in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melyn.
- Where is Melyn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melyn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melyn?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 5 people named Melyn, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Melyn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melynThe 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, “Melyn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.