Melaku

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Melaku is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name271 records spelled Melaku3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Portugal

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Męľäķū

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Melaku 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.

• the angel.

  as a name·African Names

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2014–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tsehay Melakub. 1952ETEthiopian writer (born c. 1952)
• Elfenesh Melakub. 1985ETEthiopian athletics competitor

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Melaku?

We estimate roughly 383 people bear Melaku (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.

In which country does Melaku have the most bearers?

Melaku is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled melaku.

How common is Melaku compared with other names?

In Ethiopia, Melaku is the 99th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.

Is Melaku a male or female name?

Melaku is a male 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.

What does the name Melaku mean?

Recorded meaning: Amharic: "the angel"