Melìa
surname · Latin script
Melìa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From melia (“plumeria”).
- USUnited States1 in 71K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 8.2K
- FIFinland1 in 67K
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 States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,704 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melia in US United States, PH Philippines.
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 melia (“plumeria”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melìa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,704 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Melia | 276 |
| FR France | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 2.7K | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Melia | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 716 | 1 in 8.2K | 716 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 308 | 1 in 687K | 338 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 132 | 1 in 77K | 132 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 83 | 1 in 67K | 111 | — | 2 |
4,704 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melìa mean, and where does it come from?
- From melia (“plumeria”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Melìa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Melìa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melia.
- Where is Melìa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melìa is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melìa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,704 people named Melìa in 2020, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%ACaThe 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, “Melìa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.