Metar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Meteorological Aerodrome Report, the aviation routine weather report; a specially encoded weather observation report
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Metar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 12Kas Meter(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 57Kas Meter
- PLPoland1 in 132Kas Miter
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Metar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
453 named Meter, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Croatia, as Meter
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Miter in US United States and Meter in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Meteorological Aerodrome Report, the aviation routine weather report; a specially encoded weather observation report.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Metar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 453as Meter | 1 in 734K | 582 | Miter | 4 |
| HR Croatia | 352as Meter | 1 in 12K | 352 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 301as Meter | 1 in 57K | 301 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 289as Miter | 1 in 132K | 146 | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Meter | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 8as Meter | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
453 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling meter. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Metar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular future passive indicative of metō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, to put on, don (clothing, ornaments)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, present indicative of meta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, meter (unit of length)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dlm, to put, place
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Metar mean, and where does it come from?
- Meteorological Aerodrome Report, the aviation routine weather report; a specially encoded weather observation report. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Metar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 453 people named Meter, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Metar most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Metar itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Croatia's: the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people named Meter.
- How common is the name Metar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Meter in 2010, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Metar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metarThe 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, “Metar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.