Melina
From Greek, where it means "honey". In Poland it stays rare: just over a hundred women carry it, and most people here have never met one.
Melina Pronunciation
Melina is pronounced me-LEE-nah (/mɛˈlina/).
What Melina means
Where Melina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Melina reaches back to Greek, to the word meli, honey. The same root feeds melissa, the Greek word for bee, so the name sits close to the insect that makes the sweetness. Melina means honey, and little else needs adding.
One bearer fixed the name in the twentieth century. Melina Mercouri, born in Athens in 1920, acted on stage and screen and later served as Greece's minister of culture. She carried the name from film into politics, and it lost none of its Greek origin.
In a Polish class register, Melina reads as a borrowed guest, less common than Marta or Magdalena. A teacher reading it from the list meets a name with no Polish saint behind it and no fixed imieniny. What stays constant is the meaning under the sound. Melina is honey.
How many people are named Melina
1 in 189444 women in Poland is named Melina. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3093 among female names.
Melina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Melina as a middle name
Melina is a first name for 119 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1729th, between Mariona (18) and Meta (18).
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#1727 Maggie18
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#1728 Mariona18
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#1729 Melina18
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#1730 Meta18
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#1731 Mirabela18