Mevo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Mɛvɔ̀ mɛ̀ /vɔ̀ mɛ n. individu, personne vɔ̀ v
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mevo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- BJBenin≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 48K
- ITItaly≈1 in 554K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈580 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Benin, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mɛvɔ̀ mɛ̀ /vɔ̀ mɛ n. individu, personne vɔ̀ v. finir, terminer Homme fini Mɛvɔ̀ est l’un des dignitaires du roi d’Abomey. Il a la confiance du roi, et à part lui, plus personne ne mérite cette confiance. Ceci va dans le sens de ce que nous avons déjà expliqué à propos de Nyanvɔ̀.
Sources 1
- Le dictionnaire etymologique des noms propres de personnes au Benin (langues fon et francais)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mevo 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.
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. 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)
Mevo 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 Esperanto, gull, seagull
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- What does the name Mevo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Mɛvɔ̀ mɛ̀ /vɔ̀ mɛ n. individu, personne vɔ̀ v.
- In which country does Mevo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 576 people named Mevo in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mevo.
- How common is the name Mevo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 580 people in Cameroon have Mevo as their first surname, about 1 in 48 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mevoThe 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, “Mevo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.