Origin and popularity of the name MELIN

Origin

Melin : 1: Swedish: probably an ornamental or habitational name formed with the (placename) element mel from Old Norse methal ‘mid middle’ + the adjectival suffix -in a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’.2: Czech (Melín): from a pet form of the personal name Melichar ‘Melchior’.3: French: habitational name from any of the places in Haute-Saône and Côte d'Or all named with the dialect word melin ‘mill’ from Latin molinum.4: French: from a shortened form of the personal name Amelin from ancient Germanic Amalin based on the element amal ‘capable brave eager’.5: English (Lancashire) and Irish: variant of Melling.6: Slovenian: probably a topographic name for someone who lived near a mill from dialect melin ‘mill’.

Lemelin : French: from the personal name Melin (see Melin 4) or its cognate Emelin with fused definite article l(e).

Melendy : Scottish Welsh or English: most probably a habitational name from Welsh melin ‘mill’ + dy lenited form of ty ‘house’. Place names of Welsh origin are found not only in Wales and western England but also in southern Scotland where Welsh was spoken in earlier centuries. This surname is recorded in the 17th century in Scotland and subsequently in Boldre Hampshire.

Tremelling : Cornish: habitational name from Tremellin in Saint Erth (Cornwall). The placename derives from Middle Cornish tre ‘estate farmstead’ + melin ‘mill’.

Vellenoweth : from the hamlet of Vellanoweth in Ludgvan (Cornwall) named in Middle Cornish with melin ‘mill’ in its soft-mutated form + noweth ‘new’.

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