Meres
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular present indicative of merer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/meɾes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Meres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 78K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
490 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The etymology of Meres is of foreign (Persian) derivation, with the exact meaning being uncertain. Various sources suggest possible meanings such as "lofty", "worthy", or "defluxion".
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Meres is read
(measured from records)Meres is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish26%
second-person singular present indicative of merer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Meres in Portuguese.
- Turkish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Meres in Turkish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meres 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 490 | 1 in 78K | 249 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Meres | 8 |
| BR Brazil | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 678K | 273 | Meres | 42 |
| US United States | 268 | 1 in 1.2M | 270 | Meres | 25 |
| PE Peru | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Meres | 23 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 12 | — | 1 |
490 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Meres 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.
The etymology of Meres is of foreign (Persian) derivation, with the exact meaning being uncertain. Various sources suggest possible meanings such as "lofty", "worthy", or "defluxion".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of mereō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of mere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, inessive singular of meri
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)- Francis Meresb. 1565GBEnglish churchman and author
- Thomas Meresb. 1634GBEnglish politician
- John Meresb. 1660GBEnglish company director
- Bolesław Meresb. 1915PLsub-lieutenant of the Polish Army
- Witold Meresb. 1950PLPolish tennis player
- Zbigniew Meresb. 1952PLPolish politician
- Johnny Meresb. 1958GBBritish actor
- Triinu Meresb. 1980EEEstonian poet and writer (born 1980)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 270 | #76,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 268 | #72,568 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 249 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 249 | #13,321 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 241 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 241 | #13,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 228 | #78,035 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,881 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Meres come from?
- The etymology of Meres is of foreign (Persian) derivation, with the exact meaning being uncertain. Various sources suggest possible meanings such as "lofty", "worthy", or "defluxion". Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Meres?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /meɾes/; in Portuguese /mɛɾeʃ/; in Turkish /meɾes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Meres mean?
- In Spanish, second-person singular present indicative of merer
- In which country does Meres have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 490 people named Meres, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Meres?
- In Poland, the national register counted 490 people named Meres in 2026, about 1 in 78 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/meresThe 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, “Meres”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.