Mermet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a place name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/meɾmet/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mermet is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- CHSwitzerland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a place name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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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)- Julien Augustin Joseph Mermetb. 1772FRFrench military commander (1772–1837)
- Thomas Mermetb. 1780FRFrench politician, court clerk and lawyer (1780-1846)
- Auguste Mermetb. 1810FRFrench composer
- Eugène-Emmanuel Mermet-Cachonb. 1828FRFrench priest
- Gustave Mermet-Guyenetb. 1883FRFrench politician
- François Mermetb. 1911FRFrench military (1911-1940)
- François Mermetb. 1933FRFrench soldier
- Gérard Mermetb. 1947FRFrench sociologist
- Vivb. 1986FRnot in their usual nameFrench video game designer
- Joseph MermetFRFrench Righteous Among the Nations
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 376 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 343 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 322 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 312 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 286 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 276 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 268 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 237 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 235 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 194 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 192 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Mermet mean, and where does it come from?
- from a place name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mermet?
- In Spanish /meɾmet/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mermet have the most bearers?
- Mermet is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mermetThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mermet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.