Meca

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Meca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as shoot, shank, sugar (euphemised form of "shit").

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 24K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 99K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

2,122 people

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Mecca (any important place of pilgrimage by people with a particular interest)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Meca is read(measured from records)

Meca is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish69%

    shoot, shank, sugar (euphemised form of "shit")

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Meca in English.

  • Portuguese8.0%

    Mecca (any important place of pilgrimage by people with a particular interest)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meca 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 Meca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,1221 in 24K2.1KMeca102
PE Peru≈1,800 est.≈1 in 17K—Meca37
PH Philippines≈1,100 est.≈1 in 99K—Meca12
BR Brazil3601 in 588K360Meca56
RO Romania≈310 est.≈1 in 69K—Meca8
CZ Czechia2121 in 50K212Meca18
PT Portugal≈130 est.≈1 in 82K—Meca23

2,122 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

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

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Also written Méca, Meça, Mêca

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Méca

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Méċā, Meça

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Meça

41 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)

Meca is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Mecha.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Asturian, interjection of surprise

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fj, an enemy

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Francijā (Metz), Lielo Austrumu (līdz 2016. g. - Lotringas) reģiona Mozeles departamenta administratīvais centrs, 120700 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.)

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Stéphane Meca, b. 1968David Meca, b. 1974Kaltra Meca, b. 2008

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 23 sources across 12 countries.

Reference works 3

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

Where does the name Meca come from?
Mecca (any important place of pilgrimage by people with a particular interest) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Meca mean?
In Spanish, shoot, shank, sugar (euphemised form of "shit")
In which country does Meca have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Meca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meca.
How common is the name Meca?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,122 people named Meca, about 1 in 24 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, “Meca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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