Meelis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meelis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From meelis (“agreeable”).
- EEEstonia≈1 in 507(inferred from the name graph)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.7K
- FIFinland1 in 174K
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 507 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meeliş in TM Turkmenistan.
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)
From meelis (“agreeable”).
Sources 2
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meelis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #31 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 507 | 3.3K | Meelis | 78 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #512 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Meeliş | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Meelis | 19 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 964 | Meelis | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Meelis | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | Meelis | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 100 | Meelis | 6 |
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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Meelis Kiilib. 1965EEEstonian military personnel (born 1965)
- Meelis Atonenb. 1966EEEstonian politician (born 1966)
- Meelis Lindmaab. 1970EEEstonian footballer (born 1970)
- Meelis Mälbergb. 1970EEEstonian politician (born 1970)
- Meelis Friedenthalb. 1973EEEstonian author and academic (born 1973)
- Meelis Rämmeldb. 1975EEEstonian actor (born 1975)
- Meelis Roobab. 1977EEEstonian footballer (born 1977)
- Meelis Veeremetsb. 1983EEEstonian cinematographer (born 1983)
- Meelis Kanepb. 1983EEEstonian chess player (born 1983)
- Meelis Peitreb. 1990EEEstonian footballer (born 1990)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3.3K | #33 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3.3K | #33 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 964 | #774 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #7,707 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,333 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 18 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Meelis mean, and where does it come from?
- From meelis (“agreeable”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Meelis a male or female name?
- Meelis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Meelis?
- In the etymology graph, Meeli is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Meelis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Meelis in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meelis.
- How common is the name Meelis?
- In Finland, the national register counted 32 people named Meelis, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Meelis compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Meelis is the 31st most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meelis?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meelisThe 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, “Meelis” — the 31st most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.