Meraka
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Meraka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 211as Marika(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 212as Mark
- ECEcuador1 in 221as Marco
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meraka 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211 (inferred from the name graph)
1,135,541 named Mark, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Finland, as Marika
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mark in US United States.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meraka 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 | 1,135,541as Mark | 1 in 293 | 1.1M | Mark | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 192,703as Marco | 1 in 1.1K | 208K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 76,598as Marco | 1 in 221 | 77K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 30,125as Marco | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | — | — |
| FI Finland | 26,459as Marika | 1 in 211 | 28K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 15,562as Marco | 1 in 328 | 16K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3,539as Mark | 1 in 212 | 3.5K | — | — |
1,135,541 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Meraka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mark, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meraka most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Meraka itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 211 people named Marika.
- How common is the name Meraka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,135,541 people named Mark in 2020, about 1 in 293 residents.
What do you want to know about Meraka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merakaThe 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, “Meraka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.