Mell

Where Mell comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mell.

Mell through the years
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #799 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #722
    8 babies named Mell, its best rank.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1927
    Mell Lazarus born
    syndicated cartoonist
  5. 1963
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  6. 2002
    Mell Reasco born
    Ecuadorian tennis player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Mell Lazarus · syndicated cartoonist, 1927–2016
  • Mell Reasco · Ecuadorian tennis player, born 2002
  • Mell G. Underwood · United States federal judge, 1892–1972
  • Mell Mina · Ecuadorian taekwondo practitioner, born 2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.