Meša

given name · Latin script

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

Meša is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mass (liturgy).

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 5.3Kas Miša(inferred from the name graph)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 22K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 480K

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 Meša 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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300 named Miša, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MišaLatin(measured from records)
МешаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Miša in RS Serbia, SI Slovenia, HR Croatia and Misa in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

mass (liturgy)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meša 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 Meša is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#338≈1,300 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Miša37
US United States—1,147as Misa1 in 290K14KMisa20
SI Slovenia#509376as Miša1 in 5.6K362Miša11
FI Finland—218as Misa1 in 26K166—2
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈180 est.≈1 in 22K—Meša5
HR Croatia—43as Miša1 in 98K52Miša12
NL Netherlands—361 in 480K24Misa3

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Meša is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia

    Also written Mesa, Mesä, Męsã, Mèsâ

  • Spanish given name179 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Colombia, Thailand, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Thai, English

    Also written Mesa, เมษา, Masa, Maeşa, Maşa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mesa

7 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Meša 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 Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Francijā, Burgundijas-Franškontē (līdz 2016. g. - Franškontē) reģiona Dū departamentā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meša under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Meša mean, and where does it come from?
mass (liturgy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Meša a male or female name?
Meša is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Meša have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Miša in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Meša?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 36 people named Meša, about 1 in 480 thousand residents.
How common is Meša compared with other names?
In Serbia, Meša is the 338th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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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, “Meša” — the 338th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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