Mez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of maritime exclusion zone
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈmɛz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 242K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 372K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 242K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of maritime exclusion zone.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mez 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Mez | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Mez | 46 |
| ES Spain | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Mez | 13 |
| US United States | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 161 | Mez | 121 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Mez | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Mez | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Mez | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Mez | 2 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mez is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, cover, clothes
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In cau-drg-pro, place
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mês.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, initialism of mitteleuropäische Zeit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-pro, romanization of ᛗᛖᛉ
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)- Carl Mezb. 1808DEGerman politician (1808-1877)
- Carl Christian Mezb. 1866DEGerman botanist (1866-1944)
- Adam Mezb. 1869DE(1869-1917)
- Gerda Mezb. 1911DEGerman resistance fighter
- Jette Mezb. 1942DKDanish translator
- Lutz Mezb. 1944DEGerman political scientist
- Sebastian Mezb. 1982DEscreenwriter
- King Mezb. 1990USAmerican rapper
- Kristin Kobes Du Mezb. 2000USAmerican historian and author
- Emerico MezITItalian agronomist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Mez mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of maritime exclusion zone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mez?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 148 people named Mez in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mez.
- How common is the name Mez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Mez in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mezThe 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, “Mez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.