Mezen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mezen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 531as Mesen(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1Mas Mesen
- HNHonduras≈1 in 185K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mezen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 185K (inferred from the name graph)
9,600 named Mesen
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mesen in CR Costa Rica, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 more and Mesén in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mezen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #115 | 9,600as Mesen | 1 in 531 | 9.6K | Mesen | 65 |
| US United States | — | 109as Mesen | 1 in 3.1M | 113 | Mesen | 86 |
| IN India | — | 57as Mesen | 1 in 23M | 57 | Mesen | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 6 | Mesén | 1 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Mesen | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Mesen | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 997K | — | Mesen | 12 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 531K | — | Mesen | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
9,600 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Mezen 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 Dutch, plural of mees
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #360,815 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mezen?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛzən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mezen have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Mesen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mezen?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Mezen in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Mezen compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Mezen is the 115th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mezen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mezenThe 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, “Mezen” — the 115th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.