Merhi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/meɾi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Merhi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lebanon than in any other country.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 70K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 86K
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.
- Lebanon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Merhi
- Spanish:/meɾi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/mɛɾi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Merhi is found
(measured from records)Merhi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB Lebanon | #391 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Merhi | 54 |
| US United States | — | 357 | 1 in 932K | 468 | Merhi | 142 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Merhi | 99 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 320K | — | Merhi | 61 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Merhi | 36 |
| DK Denmark | — | 84 | 1 in 70K | 84 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Merhi | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Merhi | 8 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph Merhib. 1912LBMaronite bishop (1912–2006)
- Joseph Merhib. 1953SYBritish film director and producer
- Roberto Merhib. 1991ESSpanish racing driver
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Merhi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /meɾi/; in Portuguese /mɛɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Merhi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Merhi in Lebanon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merhi. After it come United States, Australia, Germany and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Merhi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 357 people named Merhi in 2010, about 1 in 932 thousand residents.
- How common is Merhi compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Merhi is the 391st most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merhi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merhiThe 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, “Merhi” — the 391st most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.