Meeker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. occupational name from Middle Dutch maker, Brabant-Limburg dialect meker ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmikɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meeker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 80Kas Miker
- PLPoland1 in 13Mas Miker
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meeker itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
8,781 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Микер in TR Türkiye.
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)
1. occupational name from Middle Dutch maker, Brabant-Limburg dialect meker ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’. 2. from the Germanic personal name Magherus.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meeker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,781 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Meeker | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | 134as Miker | 1 in 80K | 134 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3as Miker | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 88M | — | Meeker | 13 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Микер | 1 |
8,781 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Meeker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, comparative form of meek: more meek
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)
- Bradley B. Meekerb. 1813USAmerican jurist, lawyer, and businessman
- Ezra Meekerb. 1830USpioneer of Washington Territory who later publicized the memory of the Oregon Trail
- Royal Meekerb. 1873USAmerican economist and official
- Edward Meekerb. 1874USUS singer and performer
- Jacob Edwin Meekerb. 1878USAmerican politician (1878-1918)
- George Meekerb. 1904USAmerican actor
- Ralph Meekerb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920-1988)
- Howie Meekerb. 1923CACanadian politician, formerly ice hockey player (1923–2020)
- Meg Meekerb. 1957USAmerican pediatrician
- Mary Meekerb. 1959USAmerican venture capitalist and securities analyst
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,046 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.9K | #4,355 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Meeker come from?
- 1. occupational name from Middle Dutch maker, Brabant-Limburg dialect meker ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’. 2. from the Germanic personal name Magherus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meeker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmikɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Meeker mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. occupational name from Middle Dutch maker, Brabant-Limburg dialect meker ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’.
- In which country does Meeker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Meeker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meeker.
- Where is Meeker most common?
- Meeker is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meeker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,781 people named Meeker in 2010, about 1 in 38 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/meekerThe 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, “Meeker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.