Mešter
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Mešter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: occupational name for a teacher, or master craftsman, from the vocabulary word mester ‘master’, ‘craftsman’, or alternatively a status name for a learned person. Compare Meister.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 69K
- FIFinland1 in 164K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
971 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mester 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)occupational name for a teacher, or master craftsman, from the vocabulary word mester ‘master’, ‘craftsman’, or alternatively a status name for a learned person. Compare Meister.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mešter 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.
971 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 61 | #11,626 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 53 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mešter mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a teacher, or master craftsman, from the vocabulary word mester ‘master’, ‘craftsman’, or alternatively a status name for a learned person. Compare Meister. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Családnevek enciklopédiája and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mešter have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 971 people named Mešter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mester.
- How common is the name Mešter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 971 people named Mešter in 2010, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C5%A1terThe 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, “Mešter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.