Mekki

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mekki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 7.2K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 8K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,400 people, est.

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

1. Mekkeli. 2. Mekke'yle ilgili.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mekki 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.

Where Mekki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#218≈5,400 est.≈1 in 8KlistedMekki35
SD Sudan#628≈4,200 est.≈1 in 11K—Mekki25
FR France—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 36K202Mekki204
TN Tunisia#335≈1,600 est.≈1 in 7.2K—Mekki38
EG Egypt—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 90K—Mekki51
SY Syria—≈690 est.≈1 in 28K—Mekki6
ES Spain—1351 in 370K135Mekki16

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mekki is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mekkī, Mekkî

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Romania, Tunisia

    Also written Mēkkï, Mėkkì, Mêkkí

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Algeria, Tunisia

    Also written Mékki

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Mëkkî

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Mĕķķï, Mėķķĭ, Mëķķî

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Мекки

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mekki is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of mökkur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. Mekkeli. 2. Mekke'yle ilgili.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

500100015002000Mekki ibn Ibrahim, b. 743Mekki Sait Esen, b. 1903Mekki Ben Azzouz, b. 1953Mekki Leeper, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Mekki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981205—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991202—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971168—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—135#22,295
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—135#22,181
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901——

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

In which country does Mekki have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Mekki in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mekki.
How common is the name Mekki?
In Spain, the national register counted 135 people named Mekki, about 1 in 370 thousand residents.
How common is Mekki compared with other names?
In Algeria, Mekki is the 218th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mekki” — the 218th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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