Meïr

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meïr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps from Old English mere (“pool, lake”), similar to the surname Mears.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 99K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 300K
  • FIFinland1 in 348K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,369 people, 2020

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Meir in 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(measured from records)

Perhaps from Old English mere (“pool, lake”), similar to the surname Mears.

Sources 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meïr 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.

Where Meïr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,3691 in 99K3.3KMeir19
PL Poland1021 in 375K102——
BR Brazil971 in 2.2M196——
SE Sweden341 in 300K34——
NL Netherlands261 in 665K26—4
FI Finland161 in 348K45—1
DK Denmark101 in 587K10——

3,369 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meïr is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Meir, Méir, Meīr, Mēīr, Mei͏̈r

  • Hebrew given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Morocco, Qatar

    Also written מאיר, Meir, מאייר, Meyer, מייר

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Mēīr, Meĭr, Mei̕r, Méïr, Mēir

  • Danish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Israel

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Meir

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Golda Meir, b. 1898Yitsḥaḳ Meʼir, b. 1918Menachem Meir, b. 1924Avinoam Meir, b. 1946Gideon Meir, b. 1947Ephraim Meir, b. 1949Tamar Mayer, b. 1952Irit Meir, b. 1957Sharone Meir, b. 1965Yedidya Meir, b. 1976

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.

Official registers attesting Meïr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—14#14,610

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 Meïr mean, and where does it come from?
Perhaps from Old English mere (“pool, lake”), similar to the surname Mears. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Meïr a male or female name?
Meïr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Meïr have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Meïr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meir.
Where is Meïr most common?
Meïr is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 99 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Meïr?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,369 people named Meïr in 2020, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.

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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, “Meïr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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