Metre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈmiːtə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Metre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 4.5M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 27M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5M (inferred from the name graph)
49 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Metre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 49 | 1 in 27M | 49 | Metre | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | Metre | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Metre | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Metre | 18 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Metre | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | Metre | 5 |
| BO Bolivia | — | — | — | Metre | 1 |
49 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Metre 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.
In Turkish, metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, to put, to place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, to put
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 49 | #45,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #109,451 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #8,718 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Metre?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈmiːtə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /metɾe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Metre mean, and where does it come from?
- The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Metre have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 49 people named Metre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled metre.
- Where is Metre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Metre is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 4.5 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Metre?
- In India, the national register counted 49 people named Metre, about 1 in 27 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metreThe 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, “Metre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.