Merope

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɛɹəpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Merope is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 8.5M(measured from records)

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

25 people, 2022

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Merope 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 Merope is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil251 in 8.5M30Merope17
PH Philippines———Merope2
AR Argentina———Merope8
US United States———Merope14
PE Peru———Merope5

25 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)

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

  • Greek given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Greece, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: Greek, English, German

    Also written Meropi, Μεροπη, Μερόπη, Meropē, Méropi

32 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Merope is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, wife of Sisyphus; one of the Pleiades

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In vo, dative singular of Merop

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, bee-eater

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, grieķu mitoloģijā - Mesēnijas valdnieka Hērakleida Kresfonta sieva, kad valdnieka radinieks Polifonts nogalināja Kresfontu un divus tā dēlus, viņai izdevās noslēpt jaunāko - arī Kresfontu, kas vēlāk nogalināja Polifontu

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, grieķu mitoloģijā - titāna Atlanta un okeanīdas Pleiones meita, viena no plejādām un vienīgā no viņām, kas apprecējusies ar mirstīgo - Korintas valdnieku Sīsifu; tāpēc Plejādu zvaigznājā spīd vājāk nekā tās māsas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

18801900192019401960Meropi Rozan, b. 1895Meropi Kaldi, b. 1954Meropi Tzoufi, b. 1956
  • Meropi Rozanb. 1895GRnot in their usual nameGreek actress
  • Meropi Kaldib. 1954GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
  • Meropi Tzoufib. 1956GRnot in their usual nameGreek university teacher and politician

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)

InformalHi Merope,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Merope
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—30#47,553
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202225—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#106,978

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Merope?
A machine transcription gives /mɛɹəpi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Merope mean, and where does it come from?
The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Merope a male or female name?
Merope is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Merope have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 25 people named Merope, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merope.
Where is Merope most common?
Merope is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.5 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Merope?
In Brazil, the national register counted 25 people named Merope in 2022, about 1 in 8.5 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, “Merope”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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