Mêssï

surname · Latin script

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

  • FIFinland1 in 133K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 163K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 187K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Argentina (measured from records)

279 people

Record sources
36 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Messi in EG Egypt, TN Tunisia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mêssï 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 Mêssï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—2791 in 163K279——
CH Switzerland—451 in 187K45—1
FI Finland—421 in 133K42—3
ES Spain—341 in 1.5M34—6
IN India—251 in 53M25—19
EG Egypt#714≈21 est.≈1 in 5M—Messi36
TN Tunisia—≈9 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Messi10

279 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mêssï is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Messi, Mëśśï, Messì, Meşşi, Měṧṧi

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mêssï have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 279 people named Mêssï, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mêssï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mêssï is densest in Finland — about 1 in 133 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mêssï?
In Argentina, the national register counted 279 people named Mêssï, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
How common is Mêssï compared with other names?
In Egypt, Mêssï is the 714th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mêssï” — the 714th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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