Měch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bellows
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Měch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 21K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 170K
- INIndia1 in 645K
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 Měch itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
2,056 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Мех in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and Mech in US United States, IN India, PL Poland.
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)bellows
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Měch 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,056 | 1 in 645K | 2.1K | Mech | 6 |
| US United States | 2,003as Meh | 1 in 166K | 4.2K | Mech | 13 |
| PL Poland | 1,854 | 1 in 21K | 936 | Mech | 53 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Мех | 34 |
| RU Russia | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Мех | 101 |
| SI Slovenia | 301as Meh | 1 in 7K | 301 | — | — |
| BY Belarus | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 1 | Мех | 14 |
2,056 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Měch 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 dsb, sack, bag
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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 Měch mean, and where does it come from?
- bellows Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Měch have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Měch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mech.
- Where is Měch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Měch is densest in Poland — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Měch?
- In India, the national register counted 2,056 people named Měch, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C4%9BchThe 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, “Měch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.