Metes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: genitive singular of Met

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

Metes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 2.3M
  • BRBrazil1 in 7.6M

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)

28 people

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

genitive singular of Met

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Metes 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 Metes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil281 in 7.6M28—3
ES Spain221 in 2.3M22Metes3
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
US United States——listedMetes13
RO Romania———Metes5

28 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Metes is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Meteš

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Meteş

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Métès

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Meteş, Meteš, Meteș

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Metes 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 enm, plural of mete (“food”)

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

  • In Latin, second-person singular future active indicative of metō

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

  • In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of meter

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

  • In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of mete

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

  • In ang, genitive singular of mete

    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)

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 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Metes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—28#156,028
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—22#80,485
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—22#78,058
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#360,752
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Metes mean, and where does it come from?
genitive singular of Met Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Metes have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 28 people named Metes, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Metes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Metes is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.1 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Metes?
In Brazil, the national register counted 28 people named Metes, about 1 in 7.6 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, “Metes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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