Ameye
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/amɛj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ameye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 201K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 10K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 248K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
1,148 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Ameye 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,148 | 1 in 10K | 1.1K | Ameye | 42 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Ameye | 19 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 201K | 30 | Ameye | 131 |
| US United States | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Ameye | 81 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Ameye | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Ameye | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Ameye | 8 |
1,148 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Julie Pauline Ameyeb. 1811BEmother of Marie Demets (1811-1848)
- Edmond Ameyeb. 1900BEBelgian resistance fighter during WW-II and military personnel (1900-1945)
- Germaine Ameyeb. 1924FRFrench latinist (1924-2008)
- Elien Ameyeb. 1984BEBelgian association football player
- Jasper Ameyeb. 1994BEBelgian Footballer
- Anna-Catharina Ameyemother of Emiel Minne
- Joanna Ameyemother of Jozef Frans Axters
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.1K | #1,116 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.1K | #1,148 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 24 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Ameye?
- A machine transcription gives /amɛj/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ameye have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ameye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ameye.
- Where is Ameye most common?
- Ameye is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ameye?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,148 people named Ameye in 2008, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ameyeThe 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, “Ameye”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.