Meme

given name · Latin script

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

Meme is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Libya than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name. In English, recorded as Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

rarermore common
  • LYLibya≈1 in 562(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 2.4K
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 3.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Libya (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
186 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 562 (inferred from the name graph)

Libya, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MemeLatin(measured from records)
МемеCyrillic(measured from records)
เมเมThai(measured from records)

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)

Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

How Meme is read(measured from records)

Meme is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Arabic57%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Meme in Arabic.

  • English17%

    Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

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

  • Spanish6.9%

    meme (unit of cultural information)

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meme 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 Meme is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LY Libya#18≈12,000 est.≈1 in 562—Meme10
EG Egypt#781≈8,300 est.≈1 in 13K—Meme35
SY Syria#317≈8,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Meme9
SA Saudi Arabia#682≈7,100 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Meme33
ID Indonesia—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 69K—Meme60
AE United Arab Emirates#895≈1,300 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Meme22
KW Kuwait#311≈770 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Meme22
US United States—6201 in 537K553Meme186

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)

Meme is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Memé, Mëmë, Mémé, Me-Me, Mëme

  • French given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, United States, Cameroon

    Also written Mémé, Même, Mèmè, Memé, Méme

  • Amharic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Israel, United Kingdom

    Also written መሜ, Même

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Memê, Memè, Memé, Même, Mémé

  • Italian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Memè, Meme', Memé, Mèmè

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Israel, United States, Sudan

    Also written Mëmě, Même

  • Burmese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), United States

    Also written Mémé, Mèmê, Mèmë

  • Croatian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian

    Also written Меме, Mémé, Même

36 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)

Meme is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tuw-pro, 1 breast (female), udder 2 foster-mother

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Latin, emphatic form of mē (“me”)

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

  • In Italian, meme (media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations)

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

  • In bwd, fibrous part of the betel nut that is ejected from the mouth

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Meme
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020553#17,651
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202067#17,651
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19805—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Meme mean, and where does it come from?
Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Meme a male or female name?
Meme 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 Meme have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Meme in Libya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meme.
How common is the name Meme?
In the United States, the national register counted 620 people named Meme in 2020, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
How common is Meme compared with other names?
In Libya, Meme is the 18th most common given name of 8,449 given names recorded there.

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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, “Meme” — the 18th most common given name in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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