Entry № 6748 · Turkish origin

Melis Melis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-LEES /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Honeybee; sweet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "honeybee; sweet".

Melis means the honeybee, and by extension sweetness itself. It carries warmth, industry and a gentle charm.

Honeybee; sweet — a Turkish name.

The name in its native script.

Melis
Transliteration
Melis
Pronunciation
/ meˈlis /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Melis stands.

Melis 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.

Meliss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Melis.

The number behind Melis.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melis reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.