Mells
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was more than one mill, Middle English melles ‘mills’, or habitational name for someone from Mells in Somerset, named with this word
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɛɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mells is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was more than one mill, Middle English melles ‘mills’, or habitational name for someone from Mells in Somerset, named with this word.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Mells is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, third-person singular simple present indicative of mell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, tāds, kam ir, piemēram, sodrēju krāsa; tāds, kam ir ļoti tumšs kādas (parasti pelēkas, brūnas) krāsas tonis; melns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, tāds, kas nav klāts ar sniegu (par vietu, teritoriju)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, tāds, kur nav uzaugusi vai ir (pilnīgi) noēsta zāle
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 547 | #42,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Mells mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was more than one mill, Middle English melles ‘mills’, or habitational name for someone from Mells in Somerset, named with this word. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mells have the most bearers?
- Mells is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Mells?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɫz/ (IPA) for English.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mells”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.