Melany

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Melany is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern form of Melanie; Gk.

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

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melani in BR Brazil, ES Spain, PH Philippines and 2 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●

Modern form of Melanie; Gk. 'dark'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Melany 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.—2Melany96
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●

  • Spanish239K63%
  • English65K17%
  • Portuguese18K5%
  • French11K3%
  • Indonesian2.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish238,83163%
English65,44917%
Portuguese18,2595%
French10,6713%
Indonesian2,9391%

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◐

Melany is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Melany2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Canada

    Also written Mélany

  • Polish given name280 records spelled Melany2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain

    Also written Mélany

  • Estonian given name215 records spelled Melany3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Mëlänÿ

  • Italian given name206 records spelled Melany2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Italy

    Also written Mélany

  • Czech given name204 records spelled Melany4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Peru, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mëläny, Mélany

  • Russian given name201 records spelled Melany7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Mélany, Mëlany, Mëlänÿ

  • Romanian given name116 records spelled Melany2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Spain, United States, Ecuador

    Also written Mélany

39 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●

02004006008001960198020002020

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Melany in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1942–2025
Yearrecords
19426
19445
194912
195011
195110
195215
195317
195417
195533
195642
195723
195831
195956
196061
196152
196238
196346
196441
196535
196634
196728
196856
196951
197048
197144
197256
197355
197441
197552
197646
197756
197842
197963
198075
198149
198250
198356
198445
198543
198644
198733
198846
198967
199077
199153
199267
199369
199462
199550
199692
1997113
1998102
1999153
2000196
2001257
2002365
2003482
2004481
2005537
2006684
2007776
2008747
2009745
2010768
2011638
2012633
2013670
2014730
2015660
2016550
2017632
2018490
2019492
2020450
2021400
2022474
2023465
2024709
2025779

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1942–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Melany Barnes, b. 1956Melany Ángeles Moras, b. 1977Melany Bergés Gámez, b. 1990Melany Da Costa Pereira, b. 1993Brigitte Garcia, b. 1997Melany Hernández, b. 1998Melany Krywoj, b. 1998Melany del Pilar Matheus, b. 2001Melany Bolaño, b. 2004

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 64 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Melany
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202430K#62
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,133
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—3.4K#236
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.9K#5,227
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#2,108
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20111.3K#3,187
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#1,215
GT GuatemalaRENAP — annual births20221.1K#10
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025779—
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—634#2,250
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—585#1,840

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 500 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Melany?
We estimate roughly 407 thousand people bear Melany (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Melany have the most bearers?
Melany is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled melany.
Where is Melany most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melany is densest in France — about 1 in 509 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Melany compared with other names?
In Argentina, Melany is the 397th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Melany a male or female name?
Melany 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 Melany mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern form of Melanie; Gk.
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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, “Melany” — the 397th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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