Melvin

English and Scottish

"council protector"

Melvin Origin and Meaning

The name Melvin is a boy's name of English origin meaning "council protector".

This once perfectly respectable surname has suffered decades of abuse, not least by Jerry Lewis's character in the fifties. NFL running back Melvin Gordon stars for the Los Angeles Chargers.

Melvin Rank in US Top 1000

# 821 in the US

Melvin Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1200 on Nameberry

Melvin Popularity

• 821 US 2023
• 1200 Nameberry 2024
• 47 Sweden 2022

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Famous People Named Melvin

• Melvin Lewis Calhoun. Jr. aka Kutt Calhoun American rapper
• Melvin Belli American lawyer known as 'The King of Torts'
• Melvin Bernhardt American stage and television director
• Melvin Booker American basketball player
• Melvin Brown Mexican football player
• Melvin Bullitt American football player
• Melvin Burgess British author of children's fiction
• Melvin Calvin American chemist who discovered the Calvin cycle
• Melvin Day New Zealand artist and art historian
• Melvin Dummar American hoaxer and subject of film Melvin and Howard
• Melvin Ely American basketball player
• Melvin Edmonds member of R&B group After 7
• Melvin Fowler American football center
• Melvin Frank American screenwriter and film director
• Melvin Franklin stage name of American bass singer David Melvin English
• Melvin Gibbs American bass guitarist
• Melvin Guillard American mixed martial artist
• Melvin Hochster American mathematician
• Melvin Jones American football player
• Melvin Jones founder of Lions Clubs International
• Melvin Kaminsky given name of actor Mel Brooks
• Melvin Konner Professor of Anthropology
• Melvin R. Laird American politician and writer
• Melvin Maas U.S. Representative from Minnesota
• Melvin Manhoef Dutch kickboxer
• Melvin McQuaid member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Melvin Mora Major League baseball player
• Melvin Nieves baseball player
• Melvin O'Doom English comedian
• Melvin Ott Major League Baseball right fielder
• Melvin Parker American drummer who played in James Brown's band
• Melvin Van Peebles American actor and director
• Melvin Platje Dutch football player
• Melvin Purvis American FBI agent
• Melvin Ragin American guitarist known as 'Wah,Wah Watson'
• Melvin Rhyne jazz organist
• Melvin Rosen American track coach
• Melvin Schwartz American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988
• Melvin Seals American musician
• Melvin Sia Malaysian,Chinese actor, singer, and model
• Melvin Sparks American jazz guitarist
• Melvin Steinberg Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995
• Melvin Stewart American swimmer and Olympic medal winner
• Melvin Tarley Liberian footballer
• Melvin B. Tolson American modernist poet
• Melvin Alvah Traylor American banker
• Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., American ornithologist
• Melvin Turpin American basketball player
• Melvin Valladares Honduran football striker
• Melvin Watkins American basketball coach
• Melvin Zais United States Army general
• Eric Scott Melvin musician in American band NOFX

Melvin in Pop Culture

• Melvin Jones main character in the film "Sailor Beware"
• Melvin Frohike character on "The X,Files"
• Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Melvin Palmer character on TV's Boston Legal
• Melvin the Superhero Guy puppet of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham
• Melvin the name given to the evil alter,ego of Marik Ishtar, in theYu,Gi,Oh! parody series Yu,gi,Oh! The Abridged Series
• Melvin Sneedly character in Dav Pilkey's book series Captain Underpants
• Melvin the Monster minor character from Tiny Toon Adventures
• Melvin Udall Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as It Gets
• Melvin Butlers nerd from the manga and anime Sailor Moon
• Melvin Wilder lazy, arrogant farmhand in Jim Leonard Jr.s' play "The Diviners"
• Melvin character in video game 'Dragon Warrior VII'
• Lough Melvin lake on the border with the Republic of Ireland
• Melvins American rock band
• The "Melvin" national Scoutcraft Competition of Scouting Ireland (CSI)
• The Melvins American band
• Melvin term for a wedgie
• Melvin "Mel" Horowitz character in the 1995 film "Clueless" & later the TV series "Clueless
• Melvin character in the animated series “Invader Zim”