Meiß
surname · Latin script
Meiß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 889Kas Meiss
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meiß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 named Meiss, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Meiss in US United States, CH Switzerland, SG Singapore and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meiß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Meiss | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Meiss | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Meiß | 62 |
| US United States | 374as Meiss | 1 in 889K | 419 | Meiss | 156 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 227K | 48 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Meiss | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Meiss | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | Meiss | 20 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Meiß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Meiss in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Meiß?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Meiß in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Meiß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mei%C3%9FThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Meiß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.