Merimée
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merimée is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: family of the novelist Prosper Merimee (1803-70) derived the name from an Eng. nickname Merrymaid, but this is probably merely fanciful. Mentz see Maynard Mentzelmann see Hermann.
- USUnited States1 in 3.3M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
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)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
100 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Merimee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DZ Algeria.
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)
family of the novelist Prosper Merimee (1803-70) derived the name from an Eng. nickname Merrymaid, but this is probably merely fanciful. Mentz see Maynard Mentzelmann see Hermann
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merimée 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 | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 104 | Merimee | 68 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Merimee | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | — | — | Merimee | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 27 | — | — |
100 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Merimée mean, and where does it come from?
- family of the novelist Prosper Merimee (1803-70) derived the name from an Eng. nickname Merrymaid, but this is probably merely fanciful. Mentz see Maynard Mentzelmann see Hermann Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Merimée have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 100 people named Merimée, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merimee.
- Where is Merimée most common?
- Merimée is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Merimée?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Merimée in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merim%C3%A9eThe 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, “Merimée”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.