Meurs
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/møːrs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meurs is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Meurs is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, inflection of mourir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, mores (moral norms)
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)
- Joannes Meursiusb. 1583BEnot in their usual nameFlemish printer and publisher (1583–1652)
- Harmen Meursb. 1891NLDutch painter (1891-1964)
- Abraham Meursb. 1904botanist
- Pauline Meursb. 1953NLDutch politician and university professor
- Henk Meursb. 1958NLPh.D. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1991
- Rinie van Meursb. 1958photographer
- Pascal Meursb. 1980BEBelgian basketball coach
- Mike Meursb. 1998NLDutch film score composer
- Evert Johan Alexander MeursNLPh.D. Universiteit Leiden 1982
- Delphine MeursBEBelgian librarian
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.2K | #549 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 600 | #2,471 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 581 | #2,569 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141 | #127,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 19 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Meurs?
- A machine transcription gives /møːrs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Meurs have the most bearers?
- Meurs is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meursThe 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, “Meurs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.