Melani

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Melani is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., verkürzte Form von.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 509◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 571
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈407K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
282 ●

233K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 509 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MelanyLatin · Spanish●239K records
ΜελανιGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melany in AR Argentina, US United States, FR France and 16 more and Melanie in GR Greece.

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●

weibl. Vom., verkürzte Form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Melani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#397231,210110K rec.—146Melany65
US United States—225,462△28K rec.1 in 1.5K225KMelany282
FR France—133,370△6K rec.1 in 509133KMelany175
EC Ecuador#15729,584△1K rec.1 in 57130KMelany35
PE Peru#88625,42613K rec.——Melany53
MX Mexico#86224,77412K rec.——Melany96
UY Uruguay#12513,4835.9K rec.—5Melany24
CO Colombia#48410,5373.9K rec.—3Melany73
PH Philippines—6,6588.1K rec.——Melani40
GT Guatemala#1086,5004K rec.—1.1KMelany31
GR Greece#2584,3404.1K rec.——Melanie48
ES Spain—3,4375.4K rec.1 in 15K3.4KMelani83

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish143K64%
  • Portuguese22K10%
  • English22K10%
  • Croatian7.9K3%
  • Indonesian7.1K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish143,22264%
Portuguese21,96210%
English21,90110%
Croatian7,8553%
Indonesian7,0793%

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◐

Melani is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name30K records spelled Melani25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Germany, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Mélani, Me'Lani, Mèlani, Mèlaní, Mêlåní

  • Indonesian given name15K records spelled Melani7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Melani, Melani', Melanì, Mêlåní, Mélani

  • Czech given name8.5K records spelled Melani36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Croatia, United States, Poland

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Melanie, Мелани, Мелание, Melan, Mélanie

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Melani2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Mélani

  • Italian given name1.5K records spelled Melani4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Melanì, Melanī, Melàni

  • English given name1.2K records spelled Melani195 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Germany, Philippines

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Melanie, Mélanie, מלני, Melānija, מלאני

53 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.

Over time●

01002003001960198020002020258 · 2020

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Melani in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1947–2025
Yearrecords
19475
19487
19498
19519
19527
195315
195412
195516
195622
195714
195830
195933
196028
196135
196244
196341
196445
196531
196633
196738
196834
196938
197031
197162
197261
197350
197449
197557
197658
197751
197842
197950
198062
198130
198241
198329
198437
198517
198618
198737
198838
198943
199037
199143
199233
199326
199425
199526
199635
199732
199841
199953
200066
200171
200298
2003116
2004114
2005126
2006179
2007163
2008170
2009142
2010134
2011108
2012141
2013101
2014130
2015120
2016147
2017165
2018205
2019235
2020258
2021222
2022227
2023227
2024254
2025234

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 78 years between 1947–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Melanie Klein, b. 1882Melanie Safka, b. 1947Melanie Mayron, b. 1952Melanie Griffith, b. 1957Thandie Newton, b. 1972Melanie Brown, b. 1975Melanie Lynskey, b. 1977Rebel Wilson, b. 1980Melanie Scrofano, b. 1981Melanie Martinez, b. 1995
  • Melanie Kleinb. 1882GBnot in their usual nameBritish Austrian born psychoanalyst (1882–1960)
  • Melanie Safkab. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1947–2024)
  • Melanie Mayronb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and director
  • Melanie Griffithb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Thandie Newtonb. 1972GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1972)
  • Melanie Brownb. 1975GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and television personality
  • Melanie Lynskeyb. 1977NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress (born 1977)
  • Rebel Wilsonb. 1980AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress, writer, and producer
  • Melanie Scrofanob. 1981CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
  • Melanie Martinezb. 1995BRnot in their usual nameMexican-American singer-songwriter

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●

Attested in 74 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Melani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.1K#3,872
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.1K#4,967
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,899
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#999
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.4K#7,424
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211K#539
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020327—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025285#413
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—285#831
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—236#1,325

Reference works 6

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 547 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Melani?
We estimate roughly 407 thousand people bear Melani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Melani have the most bearers?
Melani is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled melany.
Where is Melani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melani is densest in France — about 1 in 509 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Melani compared with other names?
In Argentina, Melani is the 397th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Melani a male or female name?
Melani 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.
What does the name Melani mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., verkürzte Form von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Melani” — the 397th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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