Melrose

See also: melrose

English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic maol (“bare, barren”) + ros (“promontory, headland”).

Proper noun

Melrose (countable and uncountable, plural Melroses)

1. A small town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5434).
2. A small town in South Australia.
3. A rural community of the City of Devonport and Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
4. A suburb of Wellington, Wellington region, New Zealand.
5. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
6. A number of places in Canada:
   1. A community in Hastings County, Ontario.
   2. A community in Middlesex County, Ontario.
   3. A small community in Nova Scotia.
   4. A settlement in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
   5. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
7. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A neighbourhood of Oakland, California.
   2. A village in East Windsor, Connecticut.
   3. An unincorporated community in Alachua County, Bradford County, Clay County and Putnam County, Florida.
   4. A small community in Monroe County, Iowa.
   5. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
   6. An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland.
   7. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
      • 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

        Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.

   8. A city in Stearns County, Minnesota.
   9. A neighbourhood of Sayreville borough, New Jersey.
   10. A village in Curry County, New Mexico.
   11. A hamlet in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York.
   12. A neighbourhood of the Bronx, New York City.
   13. A village in Paulding County, Ohio.
   14. A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon.
   15. A village and town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
8. A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Derived terms

• Melrose Park

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Melrose is the 20232^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1316 individuals. Melrose is most common among White (88.15%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Melrose”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 572.

Anagrams

• Meleros