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Melvin

OriginEnglish and Scottish
Meaning"council protector"
GenderBoy

About Melvin

Variation of Mel

As of October 2026, Melvin ranked #959 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #47 in 1926.

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  • Melvin Lewis Calhoun. Jr. aka Kutt Calhoun

    American rapper

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    American lawyer known as 'The King of Torts'

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    American stage and television director

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    American basketball player

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    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

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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

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    American rock band

  • The "Melvin"

    national Scoutcraft Competition of Scouting Ireland (CSI)

  • The Melvins

    American band

  • Melvin

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  • Melvin "Mel" Horowitz

    character in the 1995 film "Clueless" & later the TV series "Clueless

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    character in the animated series “Invader Zim”

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