Meire
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mejɾe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
30,457 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meire 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #646 | 30,457 | 1 in 7K | 37K | Meire | 129 |
| US United States | — | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 129 | Meire | 79 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Meire | 17 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 785K | — | Meire | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Meire | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 232K | 20 | Meire | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 395K | 871 | Meire | 20 |
30,457 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Meire 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.
In roa-brg, mother
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)
- Étienne Meireb. 1943FRFrench politician
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 37K | #947 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 37K | #377 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30K | #815 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 27K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 9.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 7.4K | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Meire?
- A machine transcription gives /mejɾe/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Meire a male or female name?
- Meire is a female 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 Meire have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Meire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meire.
- Where is Meire most common?
- Meire is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meire?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,457 people named Meire in 2022, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Meire compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Meire is the 646th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meire?
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/meireThe 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, “Meire” — the 646th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.