Mêche
surname · Latin script
Mêche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country: 5,193 people, counted by NPHC 2021 in 2021, which ranks it 97th. Recorded meaning: nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’.
- NPNepal1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 166K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,193 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Meche in FR France, US United States, CM Cameroon.
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)nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mêche is found
(measured from records)Mêche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | 5,193 | 1 in 5.8K | 5.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 2,002 | 1 in 166K | 2K | Meche | 72 |
| BR Brazil | 114 | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Meche | 3 |
| FR France | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 38 | Meche | 112 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
5,193 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mêche mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname flora meche ‘lock (of hair)’, ‘forelock’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mêche?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Mêche, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Cameroon and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mêche most common?
- Mêche is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mêche?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 5,193 people named Mêche in 2021, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AAcheThe 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, “Mêche” — ranked 97th in Nepal (NPHC 2021, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.