Given name & surname

Mels

Mels is a masculine given name from Russian. It is used in French.

Original RussianМэлс

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Mels comes from Russian.

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How it developed

From Russian Мэлс.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mels’s family of names

In French usage, Mels has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Мэлс. In German usage, Mels as a surname has a related form in MEHL.

Walk Mels’s family in the name graph

MelsMehlМэлс

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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