Meine
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. variant of Mein. 2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 226K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- BRBrazil1 in 607K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 226K (inferred from the name graph)
379 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. variant of Mein. 2. habitational name from Meine near Brunswick.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meine 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 379 | 1 in 878K | 407 | Meine | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 349 | 1 in 607K | 349 | Meine | 49 |
| DK Denmark | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | Meine | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 1.1K | — | 6 |
379 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Meine 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.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen Mein- (vgl. Meinhard/Meinher); 503 Träger. Auch Konkurrenzname zum Siedlungsnamen Meine.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, undervariierte Patro-/Metronymform aus einstämmiger Kurzform mit diphthongischem Stammvokal; 503 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, ) Meino; Meeno; Menno; Meno: männl. Vom., friesische Kurzform von Na men, die mit »Mein-« gebildet sind (z.B.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Meinhard.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Norwegian Nynorsk, e-infinitive form of meina
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)
- Matthias Meniusb. 1544DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician, librarian and astronomer
- Heine Meineb. 1896USAmerican baseball pitcher (1896-1968)
- Karl-Heinz Meineb. 1928DEborn:1928-02-20|died:1993-03-02|; Meine, Karl-Heinz, 1928-1993
- Klaus Meineb. 1948DEGerman singer
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 407 | #48,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 404 | #54,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 349 | #23,325 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #18,574 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,050 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #67,455 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Meine come from?
- 1. variant of Mein. 2. habitational name from Meine near Brunswick. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Meine?
- In the etymology graph, Manfredi and Minke are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Meine?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmin/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Meine mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Mein. 2.
- In which country does Meine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 379 people named Meine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meine.
- Where is Meine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meine is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 226 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Meine in 2010, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meineThe 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, “Meine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.