Méni

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Variante di Menico

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Méni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 99K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 351K
  • ESSpain≈1 in 5.8M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Albania (measured from records)

31 people

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Meni in BR Brazil, ES Spain, CL Chile.

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)

Variante di Menico

Sources 1

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Méni 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.

Where Méni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania311 in 99K29——
BR Brazil271 in 7.8M302Meni31
ES Spain≈9 est.≈1 in 5.8M36Meni17
CL Chile≈3 est.≈1 in 7M—Meni6
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

31 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Méni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bnt-pro, skin (fruit)

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, despise

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, mépriser

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, éplucher

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, frapper

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Méni under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Méni mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Menico Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
In which country does Méni have the most bearers?
In Albania, the national register counted about 31 people named Méni, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Méni most common?
Méni is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 99 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Méni?
In Albania, the national register counted 31 people named Méni, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.

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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, “Méni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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