Meah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Meah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 260Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 290K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Biblical name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where the surname Meah is found
(measured from records)Meah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 4 | Meah | 115 |
| US United States | 356 | 1 in 934K | 1.3K | Meah | 159 |
| IN India | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | 3 | Meah | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Meah | 17 |
| PH Philippines | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Meah | 33 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Meah | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 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: NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meah mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 885 people named Meah in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meah. After it come United States, India, Malaysia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 356 people named Meah in 2010, about 1 in 934 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meahThe 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, “Meah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.