Meriton
given name · Latin script
Meaning: probably from places in Shrops
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛʁɪtʰon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meriton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 38K
- SISlovenia1 in 38K
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.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably from places in Shrops. and Co. Durham called Merrmgton. Merrington in Shrops. is from OE myrge pleasant (see Merry) + dun hill (see Down i). Kirk Merrington in Co. Durham is from Maringtun, ‘settlement (OE tiln) associated with Mara', a personal name meaning ‘Famous’. Vars : Merrington, Mannington. Mirrington, Merrington, Morrington; Merker see Marker
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meriton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Meriton | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 288K | 1 | Meriton | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 378K | listed | Meriton | 37 |
| AT Austria | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 14 | Meriton | 12 |
| SI Slovenia | 55 | 1 in 38K | 58 | Meriton | 2 |
| AL Albania | 22 | 1 in 140K | 22 | — | — |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the de-munich-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Meriton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Kirk Merrington, Durham, or Merrington, Somerset; first attested Robert de Meryton 1274 FFO
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Esperanto, accusative singular of merito
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)
- Meriton Bytyqib. 1996CHSwiss association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.1K | #341 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1995 | 131 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 123 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1997 | 115 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1994 | 113 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1992 | 108 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2000 | 107 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1993 | 94 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1998 | 89 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2001 | 86 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1999 | 84 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1991 | 81 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Meriton come from?
- probably from places in Shrops. and Co. Durham called Merrmgton. Merrington in Shrops. is from OE myrge pleasant (see Merry) + dun hill (see Down i). Kirk Merrington in Co. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Meriton?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛʁɪtʰon/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Meriton mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably from places in Shrops.
- Is Meriton a male or female name?
- Meriton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Meriton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 752 people named Meriton in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Meriton?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 55 people named Meriton in 2025, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meriton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meritonThe 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, “Meriton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.