Metellus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: prominent Roman family
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛtɛɫəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Metellus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 280K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 2.2K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 43K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
prominent Roman family
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Metellus is read(measured from records)
Metellus is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
prominent Roman family
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French17%
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Spanish5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Metellus in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Metellus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #211 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Metellus | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,188 | 1 in 280K | 1.5K | Metellus | 190 |
| FR France | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 346K | 31 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Metellus | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Metellus | 1 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Metellus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, A Roman cognomen — famously held by
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)
- Alain Metellusb. 1965CACanadian athlete
- Philippe Metellusb. 1990HTCanadian-Haitian judoka
- Joshua Metellusb. 1998USAmerican football defensive back
- Mireille MétellusCACanadian actress
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,798 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,868 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 692 | #31,592 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Metellus mean, and where does it come from?
- prominent Roman family Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Metellus?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛtɛɫəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Metellus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Metellus in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled metellus.
- How common is the name Metellus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,188 people named Metellus in 2010, about 1 in 280 thousand residents.
- How common is Metellus compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Metellus is the 211th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Metellus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metellusThe 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, “Metellus” — the 211th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.