Meitei
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meitei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯩꯇꯩ (meitei).
- INIndia1 in 387K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 270K
- USUnited States≈1 in 29M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 270K (inferred from the name graph)
3,431 people
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯩꯇꯩ (meitei).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meitei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 3,431 | 1 in 387K | 3.4K | Meitei | 60 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Meitei | 3 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Meitei | 19 |
3,431 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Meitei 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 English, A member of a certain ethnic group native to Manipur, India.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #5 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.4K | #2,063 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #937 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #2,159 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #5,226 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #2,897 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meitei mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯩꯇꯩ (meitei). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Meitei have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Meitei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meitei.
- How common is the name Meitei?
- In India, the national register counted 3,431 people named Meitei, about 1 in 387 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meiteiThe 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, “Meitei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.