Meël

given name · Latin script

Meël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈8 people, est.

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Méel in FR France.

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)

Derivation of Meël: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Meël
  1. Proto-Finnic*meeli(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Finno-Permic*mäle(measured from records)

From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meël 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 Meël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈8 est.≈1 in 8.5M—Méel63
CH Switzerland≈2 est.≈1 in 3.8M3——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
IN India——320—2

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

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

  • Spanish given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Méél, Mëël, Mèèl, Mêèl, Meél

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 Meël 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

What does the name Meël mean, and where does it come from?
From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Meël a male or female name?
Meël 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 Meël have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8 people named Meël in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled méel.
Where is Meël most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meël is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Meël?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Meël, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Meël”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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