Meirav
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Meirav is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 650as מירב(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 598Kas Merav
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 660Kfew recordsas Merav
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meirav itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 named מירב, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Merav in US United States, IN India, CY Cyprus and 2 more and מירב in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meirav 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #105 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 648 | 234 | מירב | 91 |
| US United States | — | 289as Merav | 1 in 1.2M | 289 | Merav | 133 |
| IN India | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | Merav | 7 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 664K | — | מירב | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Merav | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 64as Merav | 1 in 598K | 64 | Merav | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Merav | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Meirav | 5 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Meirav Ben-Arib. 1975ILIsraeli politician
- Meirav Cohenb. 1983ILIsraeli politician
- Meirav Hellingerb. 1989ILIsraeli songwriter
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Meirav a male or female name?
- Meirav is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Meirav?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named מירב in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, India, Ethiopia and Cyprus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meirav?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Merav in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Meirav compared with other names?
- In Israel, Meirav is the 105th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meirav?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meiravThe 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, “Meirav” — the 105th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.