Meunier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: occupational name for a miller, meunier (Old French mounier, from an agent derivative of Latin molina ‘mill’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mønje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meunier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 13K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a miller, meunier (Old French mounier, from an agent derivative of Latin molina ‘mill’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Meunier is read(measured from records)
Meunier is one spelling over 2 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.
- French80%
occupational name for a miller, meunier (Old French mounier, from an agent derivative of Latin molina ‘mill’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
miller (person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de meunier, surnom d’après le métier
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English15%
Constantin, Belgian sculptor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Meunier 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #74 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 4.1K | Meunier | 325 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Meunier | 5 |
| BE Belgium | #110 | 3,135 | 1 in 3.7K | 3.1K | Meunier | 97 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Meunier | 141 |
| US United States | — | 2,641 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Meunier | 221 |
| MU Mauritius | #36 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Meunier | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 186 | 1 in 45K | 186 | Meunier | 26 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
- Constantin Meunierb. 1831BEBelgian painter, sculptor (1831–1905)
- Stanislas Meunierb. 1843FRFrench geologist (1843–1925)
- Henri Meunierb. 1873BEbookbinder, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, poster designer (1873-1922)
- Jean Meunierb. 1906FRFrench politician and journalist (1906-1975)
- Pierre Meunierb. 1908FRFrench politician (1908-1996)
- Stéphane Meunierb. 1953FRFrench journalist and film director
- David Meunierb. 1973USAmerican actor
- Havana Brownb. 1985AUnot in their usual nameAustralian DJ, singer and dancer
- Ophélie Meunierb. 1987FRFrench journalist and model
- Thomas Meunierb. 1991BEBelgian association football player
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3.3K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.1K | #263 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.9K | #282 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Meunier mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a miller, meunier (Old French mounier, from an agent derivative of Latin molina ‘mill’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meunier?
- A machine transcription gives /mønje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Meunier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Meunier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meunier.
- How common is the name Meunier?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,135 people named Meunier in 2008, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Meunier compared with other names?
- In France, Meunier is the 74th most common surname of 1,200,812 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/meunierThe 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, “Meunier” — the 74th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.