Mecca

loc · Latin script

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

Mecca is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a feminine form of the personal name Domenico (see Domingo).

rarermore common
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
62 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a pet form of a feminine form of the personal name Domenico (see Domingo).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mecca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Mecca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico——Mecca3
US United States—1.8K—43
BR Brazil—600—62
AR Argentina—253—35
CH Switzerland—32—1

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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mecca is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Makkah, Mêccặ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Makka

47 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)

Mecca is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, city. Saudi Arabia, center of Islam

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Italian, forma feminina de Mecco

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, habitational surname from Mecca

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Latin, Mecca (Arabic city in modern Saudi Arabia)

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

  • In Italian, Mecca (attractive place)

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

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)

1850190019502000Julie Mecca, b. 1866Giovanni Mecca Ferroglio, b. 1926Raffaello Antonio Mecca, b. 1942Ippolita Mecca, b. 1967

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 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Mecca
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.8K#15,099
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,349
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,694
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—600#14,456
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—253—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202432#26,077
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Mecca mean, and where does it come from?
from a pet form of a feminine form of the personal name Domenico (see Domingo). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mecca have the most bearers?
Mecca is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled mecca.

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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, “Mecca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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