Meadows
loc · Latin script
Meaning: different form of Meadow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Meadows is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.6Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 9.3K
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 Meadows 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 458 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
44,500 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Meadow in LA Laos.
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)different form of Meadow
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Meadows, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meadows 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 44,500 | 1 in 7.5K | 45K | Meadows | 458 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Meadows | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 25 | Meadows | 204 |
| IT Italy | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | — | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 16 | Meadows | 140 |
| LA Laos | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Meadow | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Meadows | 16 |
44,500 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Earle Meadowsb. 1913USAmerican athlete (1913-1992)
- Jayne Meadowsb. 1919USChinese born-American actress and author (1919–2015)
- Audrey Meadowsb. 1922USAmerican actress (1922–1996)
- Donella Meadowsb. 1941USAmerican environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)
- Dennis Meadowsb. 1942USAmerican scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, widely known as a coauthor of The Limits to Growth
- Mark Meadowsb. 1959USWhite House Chief of Staff from 2020 to 2021
- Tim Meadowsb. 1961USAmerican actor and comedian
- Shane Meadowsb. 1972GBfilm director (born 1972)
- Julie Meadowsb. 1974USAmerican pornographic actress
- Austin Meadowsb. 1995USAmerican baseball player
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 45K | #773 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 43K | #725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 43K | #788 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Meadows mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Meadow Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Meadows have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Meadows, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meadows.
- How common is the name Meadows?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,500 people named Meadows in 2010, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meadows?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meadowsThe 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, “Meadows”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.