Melina
Melina is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Honey; sweet.
What Melina means
Honey; sweet.
Melina sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Melina comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Melina is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Melina?
Melina is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Melina is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Melina
We group Melina under grace and gentleness and Gentle — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Melina
These share Melina's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Xenia — Hospitality; welcoming.
- Milica — Gentle and gracious.
- Caoimhe — Gentle, beautiful and precious.
- Sadhbh — Sweetness and goodness.
- Tanvi — Slender and delicate.
- Agatha — Good and honourable.
- Calliope — Beautiful voice; muse of poetry.
- Cosima — Order; beauty; the universe.
- Damaris — Gentle; a calf.
- Effie — Well-spoken; pleasant.
- Eudora — Good gift.
- Lois — Most desirable; superior.