Mereu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: , fam. din Lipia, -Buzau < adv

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

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 155K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 13K
  • RORomania≈1 in 76K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,800 people, est.

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

, fam. din Lipia, -Buzau < adv. si adj. ; cf. Merei, s. r. Buzau.

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mereu 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 Mereu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈4,800 est.≈1 in 13KlistedMereu41
FR France≈440 est.≈1 in 155K70Mereu130
KE Kenya≈410 est.≈1 in 130K—Mereu6
RO Romania≈280 est.≈1 in 76K—Mereu6
BR Brazil2131 in 994K213—1
CH Switzerland771 in 109K77Mereu7

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); the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Mereu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Romania, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Méreu

34 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)

Mereu 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 Romanian, always, ever, continuously, constantly

    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)

1850190019502000Peppino Mereu, b. 1872Italo Mereu, b. 1921Antonio Mereu, b. 1943Salvatore Mereu, b. 1965Simone Mereu, b. 1969Simone Mereu, b. 1980Alessandro Mereu, b. 1981

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Mereu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—213#34,903
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961107—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198180—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202477#13,481
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199170—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197156—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194133—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19011—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

What does the name Mereu mean?
Recorded meaning: , fam. din Lipia, -Buzau < adv.
In which country does Mereu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Mereu in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mereu.
How common is the name Mereu?
In Brazil, the national register counted 213 people named Mereu, about 1 in 994 thousand residents.

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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, “Mereu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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