Meinhard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From OHG megin/mein 'strength' + hard 'strong, brave'; plate shows vowel variants Mei-, Mey-, Mai-, Moi-, Män-/Men- in this surname
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/majnhaʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meinhard is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- EEEstonia
- ATAustria
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)From OHG megin/mein 'strength' + hard 'strong, brave'; plate shows vowel variants Mei-, Mey-, Mai-, Moi-, Män-/Men- in this surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
- ITItaly
- EEEstonia
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Meinhard 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 Rufname Meinhard/Meinher (mhd. mein ‘stark, groß’ + hart ‘hart, kühn’); Belege ab 1341.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Meinhard/Meinher; mit ahd./altsächs. megin 'Kraft'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname mit ahd. man 'Mann'; Belegzahl 403.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymisch zu einem Rufnamen mit Zweitglied ahd. hard/-her 'hart, stark'
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Von dem dithematischen Rufnamen Magan-/Meginharti; die Karte zeigt die Vokalvariation ei/e in den Schreibungen dieses Namens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Meinhardb. 1130DEfirst bishop of Livonia (ca 1130 – ca 1196)
- Meinhard IIb. 1238ATCount of Gorizia and Tyrol, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Carniola
- Meinhard VI of Goriziab. 1301Count of Gorizia and imperial prince
- Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrolb. 1344DEDuke of Upper Bavaria
- Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schombergb. 1641DEnot in their usual nameEnglish general
- Meinhard Edwin Mayerb. 1929USAmerican mathematician, physicist (1929-2011)
- Meinhard von Gerkanb. 1935DEGerman architect (1935–2022)
- Meinhard Nehmerb. 1941DEEast German bobsledder
- Hardy Rodenstockb. 1941PLnot in their usual nameGerman record producer (1941-2018)
- Meinhard Schwarzeneggerb. 1946ATArnold Schwarzenegger's brother
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #44,741 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 27 | #13,976 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Meinhard mean, and where does it come from?
- From OHG megin/mein 'strength' + hard 'strong, brave'; plate shows vowel variants Mei-, Mey-, Mai-, Moi-, Män-/Men- in this surname. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What are other forms of the name Meinhard?
- In the etymology graph, Meindert, Meinard and Meint are forms of the same name in other languages; Meino is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Meinhard?
- A machine transcription gives /majnhaʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Meinhard a male or female name?
- Meinhard 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 Meinhard have the most bearers?
- Meinhard is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meinhardThe 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, “Meinhard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.