Meskin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Meske, a pet form of Hebrew Miryam (see Mirkin) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mɛskin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Meskin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 800Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.2Mfew records
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Meskin
- Spanish:/mɛskin/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Meske, a pet form of Hebrew Miryam (see Mirkin).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meskin is found
(measured from records)Meskin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Meskin | 12 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 239 | Meskin | 151 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Meskin | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 600K | — | Meskin | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Meskin | 14 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Meskin | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Meskin | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Meskin | 2 |
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. 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)Meskin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Arabic meskin ‘poor’, ‘humble’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In kab, poor, unfortunate, wretched
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, mélanger, (s’)agiter, brasser
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Aharon Meskinb. 1898ILIsraeli actor (1898-1974)
- Mort Meskinb. 1916USComic artist
- Amnon Meskinb. 1934ILIsraeli actor (1934-2015)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meskin mean, and where does it come from?
- metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Meske, a pet form of Hebrew Miryam (see Mirkin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meskin?
- In Spanish /mɛskin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meskin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 360 people named Meskin in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meskin. After it come United States, Algeria, South Africa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meskin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 239 people named Meskin in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Meskin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meskinThe 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, “Meskin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.