Mehis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mehis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From mehine (“manly”).
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
1 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From mehine (“manly”).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehis 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.
1 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mehis 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 Serbo-Croatian, »nekakav kamen kojim je kupa okovana«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Mehis Pilvb. 1947EEEstonian engineer and sportsperson (born 1947)
- Mehis Helmeb. 1955EEEstonian historian (born 1955)
- Mehis Bornb. 1967EEEstonian caricaturist (born 1967)
- Mehis Heinsaarb. 1973EEEstonian writer (born 1973)
- Mehis Ärmusb. 1979EEEstonian wrestler and referee (born 1979)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #365,237 |
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 Mehis mean, and where does it come from?
- From mehine (“manly”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Is Mehis a male or female name?
- Mehis 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.
- In which country does Mehis have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 1 people named Mehis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mehis most common?
- Mehis is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 351 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mehis?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Mehis in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mehis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mehis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.