Miežis

surname · Latin script

Meaning: barley

Miežis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 607K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1M
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)

≈44 people, est.

Record sources
26 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)

Lithuania, 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 Miezis in LT Lithuania, NO Norway.

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)

barley

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Miežis 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 Miežis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania≈44 est.≈1 in 65K—Miezis16
SE Sweden101 in 1M10—1
NO Norway91 in 607K9Miezis4
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Miežis mean, and where does it come from?
barley Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Miežis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 44 people named Miežis in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miezis.
How common is the name Miežis?
In Sweden, the national register counted 10 people named Miežis, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Miežis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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