Entry № 6733 · Greek origin

Melania Melania — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-LAH-nee-uh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Dark / black (Melania Trump; Saint Melania)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "dark / black (melania trump; saint melania)".

Melania is from the Greek melas (dark, black) — feminine elaborate form. Saint Melania the Younger (c. Saint Melania the Elder (c. Melania Pettorino — American medical doctor.

Dark / black.

The name in its native script.

Melania
Transliteration
Melania
Pronunciation
/ məˈlɑː.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Melania stands.

Melania does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Melanias before her.

Real people
Melania Trump
47th US First Lady.
born 1970
Saint Melania the Younger
Roman Christian ascetic.
c. 383 – 439
Saint Melania the Elder
Founded Mount of Olives monastery.
c. 350 – 410
In fiction
Melania
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Melania.

The number behind Melania.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melania reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.