Mewes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic/short-form name; labial variation w/v/b and vowel variants; 4,500 bearers (40 types, 4,500 tokens)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛvəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mewes is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Patronymic/short-form name; labial variation w/v/b and vowel variants; 4,500 bearers (40 types, 4,500 tokens).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mewes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 526 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 188 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 17 | — |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Mewes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Plate shows -es/-s variation; German bearer count 1788.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
habitational name from Meaux (pronounced ‘Myoos’) in Humberside, formerly in East Yorkshire. This was named in Old Norse as ‘sandbank pool’, from melr ‘sandbank’, ‘sandhill’ -i- seer ‘sea’, ‘lake’, and subsequently assimilated by folk etymology to a French place name.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of the personal name Bartholomaus (see Bartholomew).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Patronym aus Kurzform von Bartholomäus; Karte zeigt die Verteilung von -ewes gegenüber Mews/Mees. 1788 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Patronym aus Kurzform zu Bartholomäus; die Karte zeigt b/v/w-Varianz in dieser Namengruppe. 4500 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Emil Rudolf Mewesb. 1885DEGerman architect
- Anni Mewesb. 1895DEGerman actress (1895–1980)
- Margarete Mewesb. 1914DEconcentration camp guard (1914–1998)
- Wolfgang Mewesb. 1924DEGerman economist (1924–2016)
- Dieter Mewesb. 1940DEGerman university teacher
- Siegmund Mewesb. 1951DEGerman footballer and manager
- Claus Mewesb. 1951DEGerman art historian
- Jason Mewesb. 1974USAmerican actor (born 1974)
- Tino Mewesb. 1983DEGerman actor (born 1983)
- Marianne Mewesb. 2000DEEast German rower
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 526 | #44,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 489 | #41,859 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 188 | #38,644 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #82,895 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 20 | #90,066 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,522 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mewes mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic/short-form name; labial variation w/v/b and vowel variants; 4,500 bearers (40 types, 4,500 tokens). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Mewes?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛvəs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Mewes have the most bearers?
- Mewes is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Mewes?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mewesThe 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, “Mewes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.