Meeme
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/meeme/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meeme is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. Recorded meaning: From the name of an elder in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Meme in Latin. Possibly related to mehine (“manly”), cognate to Karelian miemoi (“man, fellow”).
- NGNigeria
- KEKenya
- AUAustralia
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the name of an elder in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Meme in Latin. Possibly related to mehine (“manly”), cognate to Karelian miemoi (“man, fellow”). Latvian and Frisian origin have also been suggested.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meeme counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | — | Meeme | 10 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | Meeme | 5 |
| US United States | — | — | Meeme | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Meeme | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 48 | — | 3 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Meeme is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-pro, pit of stomach
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, creux de l'estomac
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Atko Virub. 1932EEnot in their usual nameEstonian basketball player, sportsperson, sports pedagogue and sports scientist (1932-2007)
- Meeme Saarevälib. 1941EEEstonian music pedagogue (born 1941)
- Meeme Veissonb. 1953EEEstonian geologist and entrepreneur (born 1953)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Meeme mean, and where does it come from?
- From the name of an elder in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Meme in Latin. Possibly related to mehine (“manly”), cognate to Karelian miemoi (“man, fellow”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Meeme?
- A machine transcription gives /meeme/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Meeme have the most bearers?
- Meeme is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled meeme.
What do you want to know about Meeme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meemeThe 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, “Meeme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.