Mein
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name Maino, Meino, a short form of the various compound names with a first element magin ‘strength’, ‘might’, for example Meinhardt (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Mein is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 177 (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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
(measured from records)from the Germanic personal name Maino, Meino, a short form of the various compound names with a first element magin ‘strength’, ‘might’, for example Meinhardt.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mein 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | listed | Mein | 64 |
| US United States | — | 615 | — | 177 |
| IN India | — | 234 | — | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 204 | — | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 31 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 29 | — | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the dfa-band-6 register. 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)Mein is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a byname from Middle High German mein ‘mean’, ‘nasty’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen Mein- (vgl. Meinhard/Meinher); 950 Träger. Varianten: Mein 129, Meyn 821.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, my, mine
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In non, harm, mischief, crime, misdeed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽
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)- William Mein Smithb. 1798NZartist, surveyor, and New Zealand politician (1798-1869)
- Jordan Meinb. 1989CACanadian martial artist
- Chowna MeinINIndian politician
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mein mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Maino, Meino, a short form of the various compound names with a first element magin ‘strength’, ‘might’, for example Meinhardt. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mein have the most bearers?
- Mein is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled mein.
What do you want to know about Mein?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meinThe 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, “Mein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.