Meinrad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic: ‘ability in counsel’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmaɪ̯nʁaːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meinrad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 1 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Germanic: ‘ability in counsel’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meinrad 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | Meinrad | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | — | 21 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 8 | — | — |
7 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Meinrad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German: from an old Germanic personal name composed of the elements magin strength + r d counsel. St Meinrad (d. 861) was a member of the Hohenzollern royal family who became a hermit in Switzerland, at the place where the monastery of Einsiedeln was later built.
as a word
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)
- Meinrad I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringenb. 1605DEPrince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- Meinrad IIb. 1673DEPrince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1673-1715)
- Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1811DEnot in their usual namePrince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885)
- Albert I of Belgiumb. 1875BEnot in their usual nameKing of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
- Leopold III of Belgiumb. 1901BEnot in their usual nameking of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1924DEnot in their usual nameHead of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1924-2010)
- Meinrad Miltenbergerb. 1924DECanoe racer (1924-1993)
- Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollernb. 1932DEnot in their usual nameGerman prince (1932-2016)
- Josef Ackermannb. 1948CHnot in their usual nameSwiss banker
- Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1952DEnot in their usual namePrince of Hohenzollern
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Meinrad mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic: ‘ability in counsel’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Meinrad?
- In the etymology graph, Meint is a form of the same name in other languages; Meino is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Meinrad?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪ̯nʁaːt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Meinrad a male or female name?
- Meinrad 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 Meinrad have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 7 people named Meinrad, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meinrad most common?
- Meinrad is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meinrad?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Meinrad, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Meinrad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meinradThe 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, “Meinrad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.