Meesen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Meesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 85Kas มีเสน(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 66K
- NLNetherlands1 in 109K
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 Meesen 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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
9,600 named Mesen
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled มีเสน in TH Thailand and Mesen in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meesen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 9,600as Mesen | 1 in 531 | 9.6K | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 85K | #480,595 | มีเสน | 55 |
| BE Belgium | 178 | 1 in 66K | 178 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 159 | 1 in 109K | 159 | — | — |
| US United States | 109as Mesen | 1 in 3.1M | 113 | Mesen | 3 |
| NO Norway | 42as Imsen | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | — |
9,600 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- John Meesenb. 1986Australian rules footballer
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 178 | #9,445 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 159 | #12,872 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Meesen have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Mesen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meesen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meesen is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though Costa Rica holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meesen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 178 people named Meesen in 2008, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meesen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meesenThe 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, “Meesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.