Meïte

Name: Meïte: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
License: https://mondonomo.ai/tos#rights

surname · Latin script

Meïte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.

rarermore common

FRFrance≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 627
MLMali≈1 in 16K

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.

: Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 161 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 627 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Meite

Locally spelled Meite in CI Côte d’Ivoire, FR France, US United States and 2 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.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meïte 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 Meïte is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CI Côte d’Ivoire	#700	≈44,000 est.	≈1 in 627	7.9K	Meite	20
FR France	—	≈1,600 est.	≈1 in 43K	244	Meite	161
ML Mali	#376	≈1,200 est.	≈1 in 16K	—	Meite	1
US United States	—	105	1 in 3.2M	160	Meite	37
IT Italy	—	≈48 est.	≈1 in 1.3M	—	Meite	1
EE Estonia	—	≈18 est.	≈1 in 70K	listed	—	—

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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

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

French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire
Also written Meite, Meité, Méité, Meïté, Méïté

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meïte under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Meïte have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Meïte in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meite.
How common is the name Meïte?: In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Meïte in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
How common is Meïte compared with other names?: In Côte d’Ivoire, Meïte is the 700th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Meïte?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C3%AFte

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Meïte” — the 700th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)