Meise
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the bird name or from ahd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meise is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 317K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
- USUnited States1 in 694K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 317K (inferred from the name graph)
479 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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)
from the bird name or from ahd. PN Mizo; also short form of MAG
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meise 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 479 | 1 in 694K | 521 | Meise | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 37 | 1 in 317K | 37 | Meise | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 23 | 1 in 1.7M | 14 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 1 |
479 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Meise 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 German, tit, chickadee (small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae)
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)
- Wilhelm Meiseb. 1891DEGerman officer
- Wilhelm Meiseb. 1901DEGerman zoologist and ornithologist (1901-2002)
- Grete Meiseb. 1914ATAustrian writer
- Rudolf Meiseb. 1920DEGerman judge, Federal Court of Justice
- Axel Meiseb. 1962DEGerman designer and entrepreneur
- Sebastian Meiseb. 1976ATAustrian film director and screenwriter
- Michaela Meiseb. 1976DEGerman artist (born 1976)
- Dunja MeiseDEGerman association football player
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 481 | #42,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 479 | #44,808 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 37 | #32,085 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,153 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #144,856 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #72,580 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Meise come from?
- from the bird name or from ahd. PN Mizo; also short form of MAG Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Meise?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmis/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Meise mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the bird name or from ahd.
- In which country does Meise have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 479 people named Meise, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meise.
- Where is Meise most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meise is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 317 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meise?
- In the United States, the national register counted 479 people named Meise in 2010, about 1 in 694 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meise?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meiseThe 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, “Meise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.