Meeks
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of meek (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Meeks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 29,457 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 11Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 11K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 464 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
29,457 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular simple present indicative of meek
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meeks is found
(measured from records)Meeks 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 | — | 29,457 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Meeks | 464 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Meeks | 125 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Meeks | 91 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Meeks | 2 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 934K | — | Meeks | 14 |
| IE Ireland | #567 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Meeks | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Meeks | 3 |
29,457 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. 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)Meeks 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 Estonian, translative singular of mesi
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gregory Meeksb. 1953USAmerican politician (born 1953)
- Jeremy Meeksb. 1984USAmerican model and criminal
- Jodie Meeksb. 1987USAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meeks mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of meek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meeks?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Meeks, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meeks. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Kenya and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meeks?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,457 people named Meeks in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Meeks compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Meeks is the 567th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meeksThe 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, “Meeks” — ranked 1126th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.