Given name & surname
Mellon
“the little pleasant one”
Mellon is a variant of Mellen. One interpretation is “the little pleasant one.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mellon is a variant of Mellen. One interpretation is “the little pleasant one.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mellon has more than one origin: as a Northern Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Meallán”; as an English surname, it comes from Norman.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mellon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,099 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mellon’s family of names
Mellon has a related form in Mellen. In Greek usage, Mellon as a surname is a transliteration of Μέλλον.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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