Mëī
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mëī is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- ALAlbania1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 19K
- FIFinland1 in 21K
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
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
11,596 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mei in US United States, ES Spain.
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)See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mëī 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.
11,596 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Mëī mean, and where does it come from?
- See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Mëī a male or female name?
- Mëī is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mëī have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Mëī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mei.
- Where is Mëī most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mëī is densest in Albania — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mëī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,596 people named Mëī in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mëī?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AB%C4%ABThe 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, “Mëī”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.