Melling , is the name of several places in Englan and one in New Zealand. The name was once used on a locomotive. Melling originates from the Anglo-saxon roots for "The homestead of Maella", (or Malla), first settled in Lancashire, England by Maella's family in the 6th century CE. As a surname it derives from the places in England, and is also found in fiction as character names and place names.