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Mella Mella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEL-ah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Other

Meaning

"Lightning (Irish + Saint Mella mother of Saint Cannech)"

Syllables

First recorded

Medieval (Irish)

The meaning

A name that means "lightning (irish + saint mella mother of saint cannech)".

Mella is from the Irish Mella — lightning, bright Old Irish saint name. Mella is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish Catholic heritage. Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic Christian heritage.

Lightning (Irish + Saint Mella mother of Saint Cannech).

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Mella

Transliteration: Mella
Pronunciation: / ˈmɛ.lə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Mella stands.

Mella 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.

Namesakes

Mellas before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Saint Mella

7th c. Irish saint + mother of Saint Cannech founder of Kilkenny + Aghaboe monastery.

Irish hagiography

Names connected to Mella.

Numerology

The number behind Mella.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mella reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.