Méka
surname · Latin script
Méka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Telugu మేకా (mēkā).
- SISlovenia1 in 350K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- USUnited States1 in 370K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 350K (inferred from the name graph)
900 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: derived
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meka in CI Côte d’Ivoire.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Telugu మేకా (mēkā).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Méka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 900 | 1 in 370K | 865 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 7 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | — | — | Meka | 4 |
900 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Méka mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Telugu మేకా (mēkā). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Méka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 900 people named Méka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Méka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Méka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 350 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Méka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 900 people named Méka in 2020, about 1 in 370 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9kaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Méka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.