Mello
Boy · MEL-oh · Modern
Mello is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,140th for boys in the US (14 babies).
What does Mello mean?
Modern: possibly from the word mellow or the Portuguese surname Mello
Mello is a rival detective in the Japanese manga series Death Note.
- Say it
- MEL-oh
Is Mello a girl's or a boy's name?
Mello is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mello in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,140among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 120,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 14 boys in the US were named Mello, making it the 6,140th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2019.
Half of all the boys named Mello in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 75 boys in the US were given Mello or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,754, up from #6,140 for this spelling alone.
- Melo 61
- Mello 14
Mello in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,140 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
Names like Mello
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Otto Kylo Milo Alonzo Rylo Moses Major August Henry Leo Charlie Jettson
Other spellings of Mello
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