31.2% live in New York
12.5% live in Pennsylvania
6.2% live in Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon and California
If you don't like people
called melis
you should probably go to
New Hampshire (None live there).
Fun fact: Iowa
is the state with the most
first name melis per capita.
Check out the popularity
of the first name melis
for each state in the map below.