Mego
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gentle, mild, peaceable
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/meɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 186K
- UYUruguay1 in 26K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gentle, mild, peaceable
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mego 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #490 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mego | 61 |
| US United States | — | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 326 | Mego | 73 |
| AR Argentina | — | 245 | 1 in 186K | 245 | Mego | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 149 | 1 in 336K | 149 | Mego | 24 |
| IN India | — | 132 | 1 in 10M | 132 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 130 | 1 in 26K | 130 | Mego | 12 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Mego | 18 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 39 | 1 in 274K | 39 | — | — |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Mego is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Initialism of my eyes glaze over: used to indicate the speaker's boredom or impatience with some subject or activity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, nonstandard spelling of méga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of めご
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, alternative form of mojego
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)
- Pavel Megob. 1973photographer
- Michal Megob. 1977SKresearcher
- Marysol Muguerzab. 1981PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer
- Shoely Megob. 1999PEPeruvian weightlifter
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 326 | #65,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 259 | #70,473 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 245 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 149 | #20,640 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 149 | #20,594 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 134 | #857 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 132 | #23,661 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 130 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 39 | #35,121 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 39 | #11,923 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Mego mean, and where does it come from?
- gentle, mild, peaceable Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mego?
- A machine transcription gives /meɡo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Mego?
- In the etymology graph, Meek is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mego have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Mego in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mego.
- How common is the name Mego?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Mego in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Mego compared with other names?
- In Peru, Mego is the 490th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/megoThe 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, “Mego” — the 490th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.