Meed
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/miːd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Meed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 850K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.8Mfew records
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mééd in MA Morocco.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meed 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Mééd | 7 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 128 | Meed | 96 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Meed | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 476K | — | Meed | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Meed | 39 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Meed | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | — |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Meed is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular past indicative of mijden
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, tired, weary, fatigued, fagged
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, nominative plural of mesi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vladka Meedb. 1921USJewish resistance fighter (1921–2012)
- Marianne Meed Wardb. 1966CAAmerican journalist
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6 | #7,171 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meed mean, and where does it come from?
- A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meed?
- In English /miːd/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Meed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 414 people named Meed in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mééd.
- How common is the name Meed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Meed in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meedThe 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, “Meed”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.