Merante

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Merante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Mirante.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 971K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M
  • ESSpain1 in 8.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

282 people, 2010

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 971K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Merante: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Merante
  1. Spanishalmirante(inferred from the name graph)via Mirante
  2. Arabical(inferred from the name graph)via Mirante

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

variant of Mirante.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Merante 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 Merante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2821 in 1.2M294Merante11
BR Brazil2181 in 971K218Merante25
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6——
PH Philippines———Merante2
IT Italy——listedMerante7

282 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mérante

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Merante mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Mirante. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Merante have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 282 people named Merante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merante.
Where is Merante most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Merante is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 971 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Merante?
In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Merante in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 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, “Merante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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