Meçe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meçe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 158K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 4.1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 551K
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.
- Albania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mece in TR Türkiye, US United States.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meçe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #575 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Meçe | 23 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Mece | 19 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 551K | listed | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 58 | 1 in 3.7M | 58 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | listed | Mece | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 4 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
- Neti Meçeb. 1995ALAlbanian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
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
- In which country does Meçe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 747 people named Meçe in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meçe.
- How common is the name Meçe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 58 people named Meçe, about 1 in 3.7 million residents.
- How common is Meçe compared with other names?
- In Albania, Meçe is the 575th most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meçe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C3%A7eThe 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, “Meçe” — the 575th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.