Metaxa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tdmkfor a Greek brandy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mɛtæksə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Metaxa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 31Kas Metaxas(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Metaxas
- CYCyprus≈1 in 22Kas Metaxas
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 Metaxa 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 named Metaxas, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est., as Metaxas
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Metaxas in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Μεταξας in GR Greece.
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)tdmkfor a Greek brandy
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Metaxa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #987 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 13 | Μεταξας | 76 |
| US United States | — | 273as Metaxas | 1 in 1.2M | 276 | Metaxas | 151 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 1 | Metaxas | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 669K | — | Metaxas | 48 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 974K | — | Metaxas | 33 |
| CY Cyprus | #554 | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Metaxas | 25 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Metaxas | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 25as Metaxas | 1 in 336K | 25 | Metaxas | 6 |
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 2000; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Luigi Metaxab. 1803entomologist
- Telemaco Metaxab. 1803ITItalian physician (1803-1851)
- Harilaos Metaxab. 1888RORomanian archaeologist (1888-1944)
- Georges Metaxab. 1899ROsinger and actor born in Romania (1899-1950)
- Doris Metaxab. 1911FRFrench tennis player (1911-2007)
- Georgios von Metaxab. 1914ATAustrian tennis player
- Vaso Metaxab. 1917GRGreek actress
- Christina Metaxab. 1992CYsinger from Cyprus
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Metaxa mean, and where does it come from?
- tdmkfor a Greek brandy Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Metaxa?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛtæksə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Metaxa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 341 people named Metaxas in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Metaxa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 273 people named Metaxas in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Metaxa compared with other names?
- In Greece, Metaxa is the 987th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metaxaThe 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, “Metaxa” — the 987th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.