Mëëk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mëëk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: son or a gentle and compassionate one, from ME meek humble, submissive, merciful (ON mjukr). Var.: Meeke. Patr.: Meeks. Meer I.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 22K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Meek in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
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)
son or a gentle and compassionate one, from ME meek humble, submissive, merciful (ON mjukr). Var.: Meeke. Patr.: Meeks. Meer I. Flemish, Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a pool or pond, MDu. mere; cf. Mear r. 2. Jewish: of uncertain origin, possibly a var. of Mayer 3Vars. (of 1): Van der Meer, Vermeer(en), Termeer, Meerman.
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mëëk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Meek | 5 |
| US United States | — | 14,970 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Meek | 409 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Meek | 183 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Meek | 112 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Meek | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 3 | Meek | 125 |
| NO Norway | — | 582 | 1 in 9.4K | 582 | Meek | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | #931 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Meek | 72 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Mëëk mean, and where does it come from?
- son or a gentle and compassionate one, from ME meek humble, submissive, merciful (ON mjukr). Var.: Meeke. Patr.: Meeks. Meer I. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Mëëk a male or female name?
- Mëëk is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mëëk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Mëëk in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meek.
- Where is Mëëk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mëëk is densest in Norway — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mëëk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,970 people named Mëëk in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Mëëk compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Mëëk is the 931st most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AB%C3%ABkThe 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, “Mëëk” — the 931st most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.