Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish : probably an ornamental name composed of the place name element mel from Old Norse meðal ‘mid(dle)’ + the common surname suffix -(l)in, from Latin -(l)inius.
- French : from a short form of the personal name Amelin.
- French : habitational name from places in Haute-Saône and Côte d’Or, all named with the dialect word melin ‘mill’, from Latin molinum.
- Breton : topographic name for someone who lived at a mill or an occupational nickname for a miller, from milin, melin ‘mill’.
- Czech (Melín) : derivative of the personal name Melichar (see Melchior).
- Slovenian (eastern Slovenia) : unexplained.