Mëchë
surname · Latin script
Mëchë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’.
- NPNepal1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 93Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 166K
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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,193 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meche in US United States, DZ Algeria, NG Nigeria and 1 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)nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mëchë 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.
5,193 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Mëchë mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Mëchë have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Mëchë, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mëchë most common?
- Mëchë is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mëchë?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 5,193 people named Mëchë in 2021, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mëchë compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Mëchë is the 452nd most common surname of 89,473 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, “Mëchë” — the 452nd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.