Meiri
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meiri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 4.9Kas מאירי(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
- PLPoland1 in 2.6M
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 Meiri itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
1,760 named מאירי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled מאירי in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 4 more.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meiri 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 | #584 | 1,760as מאירי | 1 in 4.9K | 1.8K | מאירי | 65 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | מאירי | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | מאירי | 1 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 471K | — | מאירי | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | מאירי | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | מאירי | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | מאירי | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 3 |
1,760 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Meiri is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, plural of maer (“mayor”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, comparative degree of mikill
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, inflection of mikill:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (mazciems) Kalētu pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Baruch Meirib. 1940ILIsraeli journalist
- Dalia Meirib. 1951ILIsraeli sculptor
- Elias Meirib. 1959ILIsraeli pianist
- Yossi Meirib. 1977ILcinematographer
- Shai Meirib. 2000ILresearcher
- Eden Meirib. 2000ILIsraeli singer
- Itay MeiriUSPh.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1992
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #154,289 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #167,572 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #47,463 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Meiri?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪɹi/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Meiri have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named מאירי, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meiri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meiri is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meiri?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Meiri in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Meiri compared with other names?
- In Israel, Meiri is the 584th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meiri?
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/meiriThe 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, “Meiri” — the 584th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.