Melina Forename
9,646th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 106,164 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Argentina
Highest density in:
Vanuatu
Melina Forename Definition:
MELINDA, f. This slightly obsolescent name derives, according to ‘Swan’, from a Greek word meaning ‘gentle’. But the Greek μελινος, melinos (J. -a) is ‘of the ash-tree’. Perhaps it is a harvest-name from Greek p. μελίνη (melinë), ‘ Italian millet,’ the -inda form being adapted to other -inda and/or -linda names.
Read More About This ForenameMelina Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 100% | 10,805 | 1:3,959 | 390 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 9,547 | 1:27,020 | 3,686 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 8,916 | 1:5,921 | 923 |
| Brazil | 100% | 8,757 | 1:24,465 | 2,160 |
| Mexico | 100% | 8,618 | 1:14,405 | 1,040 |
| United States | 100% | 7,716 | 1:46,985 | 2,696 |
| Peru | 100% | 4,688 | 1:6,781 | 911 |
| Philippines | 99% | 4,131 | 1:25,662 | 2,426 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 3,587 | 1:9,095 | 992 |
| Malawi | 100% | 3,490 | 1:4,903 | 728 |
| Haiti | 100% | 3,130 | 1:3,427 | 517 |
| France | 100% | 1,996 | 1:33,302 | 1,215 |
| Greece | 100% | 1,930 | 1:5,666 | 425 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,815 | 1:5,841 | 801 |
| Zambia | - | 1,596 | 1:9,934 | 1,094 |
| Iran | 100% | 1,209 | 1:64,927 | 2,070 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,201 | 1:80,498 | 1,855 |
| India | 100% | 1,136 | 1:1,069,435 | 68,533 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,104 | 1:30,012 | 2,391 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 955 | 1:16,151 | 1,882 |
| Spain | 100% | 903 | 1:51,528 | 2,038 |
| DR Congo | 97% | 863 | 1:85,548 | 4,761 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 852 | 1:12,243 | 1,353 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 852 | 1:35,448 | 2,399 |
| Italy | 100% | 809 | 1:75,478 | 1,636 |
| Ecuador | - | 789 | 1:22,468 | 1,234 |
| Australia | - | 744 | 1:18,357 | 1,344 |
| Panama | 100% | 675 | 1:5,787 | 940 |
| Congo | 100% | 654 | 1:7,659 | 1,042 |
| England | 100% | 643 | 1:86,474 | 3,420 |
| Sweden | 100% | 609 | 1:16,187 | 1,210 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 571 | 1:29,601 | 2,465 |
| Albania | 100% | 567 | 1:5,373 | 1,018 |
| Chile | 100% | 562 | 1:31,330 | 1,390 |
| Thailand | 100% | 469 | 1:149,394 | 10,953 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 462 | 1:7,419 | 623 |
| South Africa | 99% | 458 | 1:119,067 | 9,104 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 413 | 1:11,545 | 1,021 |
| Colombia | 100% | 412 | 1:115,968 | 3,550 |
| Gabon | 100% | 401 | 1:4,697 | 951 |
| Belgium | 100% | 396 | 1:29,015 | 1,859 |
| Finland | 100% | 389 | 1:14,096 | 937 |
| Malaysia | 78% | 388 | 1:78,479 | 5,888 |
| Russia | 99% | 381 | 1:378,566 | 4,586 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 356 | 1:2,447 | 358 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 312 | 1:26,129 | 2,579 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 306 | 1:52,642 | 1,721 |
| Portugal | - | 240 | 1:43,379 | 1,571 |
| Vanuatu | - | 239 | 1:1,095 | 315 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Ghana | - | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| Armenia | 100% | 217 | 1:13,450 | 990 |
| Egypt | 61% | 217 | 1:423,507 | 12,330 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 177 | 1:46,404 | 2,125 |
| Denmark | - | 167 | 1:33,829 | 1,533 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 141 | 1:153,266 | 7,041 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 135 | 1:51,781 | 2,530 |
| Austria | 100% | 117 | 1:72,771 | 1,814 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 116 | 1:21,196 | 1,323 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 116 | 1:11,736 | 1,687 |
| Honduras | 100% | 114 | 1:77,346 | 2,840 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 111 | 1:65,196 | 2,084 |
| El Salvador | - | 104 | 1:60,979 | 1,735 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 102 | 1:55,172 | 2,461 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 101 | 1:59,587 | 2,656 |
| Iraq | 100% | 92 | 1:380,629 | 4,844 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 76 | 1:17,076 | 1,785 |
| Croatia | 100% | 74 | 1:56,988 | 1,839 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 71 | 1:8,182 | 858 |
| French Polynesia | - | 70 | 1:3,970 | 724 |
| Norway | 100% | 66 | 1:77,763 | 2,775 |
| Georgia | 100% | 57 | 1:65,587 | 2,872 |
| Micronesia | - | 54 | 1:1,972 | 300 |
| New Zealand | - | 54 | 1:84,001 | 3,804 |
| Turkey | 100% | 53 | 1:1,467,957 | 12,156 |
| Ireland | 100% | 52 | 1:89,298 | 2,331 |
| Qatar | 100% | 51 | 1:46,463 | 5,889 |
| Mozambique | - | 49 | 1:555,987 | 1,346 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 49 | 1:3,623,762 | 60,714 |
| Guyana | 100% | 48 | 1:15,901 | 2,114 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 48 | 1:5,628 | 744 |
| Singapore | 100% | 43 | 1:146,211 | 7,964 |
| Uganda | 97% | 38 | 1:1,077,814 | 18,180 |
| China | - | 37 | 1:36,920,427 | 61,501 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 31 | 1:114,526 | 2,019 |
| Jamaica | - | 30 | 1:96,108 | 4,186 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 29 | 1:121,533 | 3,092 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Malta | - | 28 | 1:15,334 | 1,292 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 26 | 1:682,571 | 8,734 |
| Wales | 100% | 26 | 1:119,012 | 2,694 |
| Romania | 100% | 25 | 1:802,079 | 20,995 |
| Estonia | 100% | 23 | 1:57,190 | 3,101 |
| Belize | 100% | 20 | 1:17,715 | 2,114 |
| Scotland | 100% | 19 | 1:281,598 | 4,379 |
| Aruba | - | 17 | 1:6,105 | 1,121 |
| Israel | 100% | 17 | 1:494,289 | 9,770 |
| Botswana | 100% | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Hong Kong | - | 15 | 1:516,848 | 4,412 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 15 | 1:11,854 | 1,528 |
| Kosovo | - | 13 | 1:143,188 | 6,648 |
| Benin | 100% | 12 | 1:881,320 | 23,430 |
| Czechia | 100% | 12 | 1:888,014 | 3,257 |
| Hungary | 100% | 12 | 1:815,981 | 2,563 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 12 | 1:595,999 | 19,549 |
| Jordan | 100% | 11 | 1:802,434 | 4,728 |
| Lesotho | 88% | 11 | 1:185,454 | 13,249 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 11 | 1:4,657 | 727 |
| Palestine | 100% | 10 | 1:455,006 | 3,080 |
| Grenada | 100% | 9 | 1:12,014 | 1,427 |
| Kenya | - | 9 | 1:5,145,234 | 27,509 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 9 | 1:3,420,716 | 8,576 |
| Nepal | - | 8 | 1:3,560,919 | 43,416 |
| Greenland | - | 7 | 1:8,053 | 908 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 6 | 1:3,961,614 | 68,952 |
| Jersey | - | 5 | 1:19,996 | 1,220 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 5 | 1:22,316 | 2,594 |
| South Korea | - | 5 | 1:1,108,884 | 18,705 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Belarus | 67% | 4 | 1:2,370,596 | 9,928 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Dominica | - | 4 | 1:18,868 | 592 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Japan | - | 4 | 1:31,996,514 | 55,536 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,493,319 | 26,894 |
| Liberia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,103,015 | 25,024 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 3 | 1:696,919 | 10,674 |
| Nauru | 100% | 3 | 1:3,976 | 333 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 3 | 1:64,785,893 | 186,184 |
| Serbia | 100% | 3 | 1:2,381,907 | 7,319 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Niger | - | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Mélina (823), Mèlina (16), Meliña (4), Mêlina (2), Melína (1), Meliná (1) & Mélinà (1) are calculated separately.
Melina (4,148) may also be a surname.
Melina Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
MELINDA, f. This slightly obsolescent name derives, according to ‘Swan’, from a Greek word meaning ‘gentle’. But the Greek μελινος, melinos (J. -a) is ‘of the ash-tree’. Perhaps it is a harvest-name from Greek p. μελίνη (melinë), ‘ Italian millet,’ the -inda form being adapted to other -inda and/or -linda names. It is barely possible that Helena Swan refers to Greek μείλιγμα meiligma, (derivatively) ‘a darling’.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Greek (feminine) - Balm, gentle.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Latin name, meaning: Honey-sweet.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Melina Forename Popularity
Melina Demographics
Melina Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 1,062 (2014)
United States
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Phonetically Similar Names
Melina Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melina in the Russian language | ||
| Мелина | melina | - |
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