Meikle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Descriptive Scots name meaning 'large'; Meiklejohn first identified a bearer, recorded as Meikle Johne Burne in 1495
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmikəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meikle is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Descriptive Scots name meaning 'large'; Meiklejohn first identified a bearer, recorded as Meikle Johne Burne in 1495.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Meikle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of mickle.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Scots mekill, meikill ‘big’; first attested William Mykyl 1382 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
variant of Mickle.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Andrew Meikleb. 1719GBScottish engineer
- James Meikleb. 1729GBScottish surgeon and Presbyterian devotional writer
- Robert Desmond Meikleb. 1923GBBritish botanist (1923-2021)
- Hugh Meikleb. 1940GBWelsh male curler and coach
- Jeffrey Meikleb. 1949USAmerican historian
- Jamie Meikleb. 1965GBWelsh male curler
- Adrian Meikleb. 1965GBWelsh male curler
- Sam Meikleb. 1971AUAustralian writer and director
- Lindon Meikleb. 1988GBEnglish association football player
- Ryan Meikleb. 1996GBEnglish darts player
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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,119 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 91 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,854 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,534 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #201,915 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #71,225 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #62,005 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Meikle mean, and where does it come from?
- Descriptive Scots name meaning 'large'; Meiklejohn first identified a bearer, recorded as Meikle Johne Burne in 1495. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Meikle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmikəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meikle have the most bearers?
- Meikle is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Meikle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.