Meran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of merer: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/meɾan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Meran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 85K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Meran
- Spanish:/meɾan/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Turkish:/meɾan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of merer:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meran is found
(measured from records)Meran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #164 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Meran | 34 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 2 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Meran | 12 |
| US United States | — | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 294 | Meran | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 153 | 1 in 327K | 153 | Meran | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 3 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | 3 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-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)Meran 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.
marrano, converso
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Kurdish, Jasmine
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In ang, inflection of mere:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, A variant of Marron
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- Jean-Stéphane de Méranb. 1867AT(1867-1947)
- Albrecht von Meranb. 1874AT(1874-1928)
- Maria Anna von Meranb. 1897ATAustrian noblewoman (1897-1983)
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meran mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of merer: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meran?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /meɾan/; in Turkish /meɾan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meran?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Meran in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meran. After it come India, Philippines, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Meran in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Meran compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Meran is the 164th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meran?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meranThe 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, “Meran” — the 164th most common surname in the Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.