Melia

Family name origins & meanings

• Southern Italian : habitational name from any of various places in Sicily and southern Italy named Melia, as for example in the provinces of Messina or Reggio Calabria.
• Italian : possibly from a short form of the female personal name Amelia.
• Irish : variant of Malley.
• Dutch : from a derivative of the Latin personal name Amelius, Amilius (see Mehle).
• Catalan (Melià) : from the Latin personal name Aemilianus.
• Georgian : from a Georgian local name.