Męÿ
given name · Latin script
Męÿ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: see May . 2 English, Irish: see Mee . Męÿ is also written องคุ้ม in Thai.
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 33Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 37Kfew records
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Męÿ in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mey in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 4 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)- EnglishMay(inferred from the name graph)via May
- MiddleEnglish(inferred from the name graph)via May
- Old Frenchmai(inferred from the name graph)via May
- Latinmāius“Maia's month”(inferred from the name graph)via May
- Proto-Indo-European*magya“she who is great”(inferred from the name graph)via May
- Proto-Indo-Europeanbase(inferred from the name graph)via May
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
see May . 2 English, Irish: see Mee .
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Męÿ is found
(measured from records)Męÿ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Mey | 119 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mey | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 167 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mey | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,029 | 1 in 323K | 1.2K | Mey | 205 |
| TW Taiwan | #983 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Mey | 22 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Mey | 4 |
| BE Belgium | #752 | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Mey | 65 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 Męÿ mean, and where does it come from?
- see May . 2 English, Irish: see Mee . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Męÿ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Męÿ in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mey. After it come South Africa, France, Malaysia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Męÿ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,029 people named Męÿ in 2010, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
- How common is Męÿ compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Męÿ is the 752nd most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C4%99%C3%BFThe 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, “Męÿ” — the 752nd most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.