Meinert
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Meinert (see Meinhardt)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Meinert is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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 personal name Meinert (see Meinhardt).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meinert 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | — | 148 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 85 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 68 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 58 | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Meinert 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 German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Meinhard (<germanisch megin + hard 'Kraft, stark'). 3794 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronym zu Rufnamen mit ahd. megin „Kraft“ + hard „hart, stark“; 3794 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymic from Meinhard; unorganic -t added.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Friedrich Meinertb. 1757DEGerman engineer and officer
- Joseph Georg Meinertb. 1773CZAustrian university teacher and writer (1773-1844)
- Friederike Meinertb. 1810DEGerman painter
- Frederik Vilhelm August Meinertb. 1833DKDanish entomologist
- Rudolf Meinertb. 1882ATAustrian filmmaker
- Walt Meinertb. 1890USbaseball player (1890-1958)
- Hermann Meinertb. 1894DEGerman archivist and historian (1894-1987)
- Dale Meinertb. 1933USAmerican football player (1933-2004)
- Maren Meinertb. 1973DEGerman football coach and former player (born 1973)
- Niklas Meinertb. 1981DEGerman field hockey 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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #19,924 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 148 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 148 | #21,668 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 135 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 135 | #23,006 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #71,518 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 68 | #7,953 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,545 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Meinert mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Meinert (see Meinhardt). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Meinert have the most bearers?
- Meinert is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Meinert?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meinertThe 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, “Meinert”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.