Meško
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/meʃko/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated
Meško is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Meško, a variant of the personal name Miško (see Misko) or otherwise derived from Mihael.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 101K
- CZCzechia1 in 129K
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
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
679 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mesko in US United States.
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)* As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Meško, a variant of the personal name Miško (see Misko) or otherwise derived from Mihael. * As a Slovak surname, from Mečislav, from meč (“sword”) + sláva (“glory”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meško 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 679 | 1 in 490K | 690 | Mesko | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | #767 | 536 | 1 in 3.9K | 536 | Meško | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 160 | 1 in 1.3M | 160 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 83 | 1 in 129K | 83 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 42 | 1 in 101K | 42 | Meško | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
679 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Erna Meškob. 1911SISlovenian writer
- Ivan Meškob. 1933SISlovenian economist
- Kiar Meškob. 1936SIpainter from Slovenia (born 1936)
- Majda Meškob. 1969SIresearcher
- Nina Meškob. 1973SISlovenian choreographer
- Ksaver Meškob. 1976SIresearcher
- Marek Meškob. 1977SKSlovak historian, Byzantologist and university teacher
- Maja Meškob. 1979SISlovenian psychologist
- Maja Meškob. 1989SISlovenian researcher
- Tjaša MeškoSIresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meško mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Meško, a variant of the personal name Miško (see Misko) or otherwise derived from Mihael. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Meško?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /meʃko/; in Slovenian /mɛʃkɔ/; in Czech /mɛʃko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Meško have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 679 people named Meško, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mesko.
- Where is Meško most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meško is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meško?
- In the United States, the national register counted 679 people named Meško in 2010, about 1 in 490 thousand residents.
- How common is Meško compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Meško is the 767th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meško?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C5%A1koThe 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, “Meško” — the 767th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.