Meelis

given name · Estonian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meelis is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From meelis (“agreeable”).

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 464◐
  • TMTurkmenistan1 in 3.5K
  • FIFinland1 in 174K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈66 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
69 ●

4.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 174K ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Meeliş in TM Turkmenistan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From meelis (“agreeable”).

Sources 2

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Meelis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#489,1591.4K rec.—3.3KMeelis69
TM Turkmenistan#5121,6091.6K rec.——Meeliş1
US United States—108110 rec.——Meelis26
DE Germany—4555 rec.——Meelis19
GB United Kingdom—3733 rec.——Meelis10
AU Australia—3431 rec.——Meelis18
FI Finland—3243 rec.1 in 174K964Meelis11
SE Sweden—19△5 rec.1 in 537K19Meelis6
NO Norway—1211 rec.—100Meelis6
ES Spain—811 rec.——Meelis2
CH Switzerland—83 rec.——Meelis5
PL Poland—7—1 in 5.5M7——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Estonian9.4K78%
  • Finnish1.1K9%
  • English3443%
  • Latvian2992%
  • Russian1281%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian9,44078%
Finnish1,0529%
English3443%
Latvian2992%
Russian1281%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Russian given name230 records spelled Meelis11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Turkmenistan, Russia, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Меэлис, Meeliş, Меелис, Меелиса

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name184 records spelled Meelis6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Latvia, Estonia

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Meeliş

  • Serbian given name58 records spelled Meelis8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Meeliş

  • Polish given name53 records spelled Meelis2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Turkmenistan, Poland, Latvia, Estonia

    Also written Meeliş

26 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.

Over time●

05101520200520102015202019 · 2011

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Meelis in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2001–2020
Yearrecords
200110
200510
200611
200715
200816
200917
201017
201119
201218
201318
201418
201519
201618
201719
201817
201919
202019

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Meelis Kiili, b. 1965Meelis Atonen, b. 1966Meelis Lindmaa, b. 1970Meelis Mälberg, b. 1970Meelis Friedenthal, b. 1973Meelis Rämmeld, b. 1975Meelis Rooba, b. 1977Meelis Veeremets, b. 1983Meelis Kanep, b. 1983Meelis Peitre, b. 1990

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●

Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Meelis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—3.3K#33
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—3.3K#33
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—964#1,516
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—100#7,707
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200750#30,936
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—32—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19#25,333
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202019—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201919—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201719—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201519—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201119—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meelis?
We estimate roughly 66 people bear Meelis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Meelis have the most bearers?
Meelis is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled meelis.
How common is Meelis compared with other names?
In Estonia, Meelis is the 48th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Meelis a male or female name?
Meelis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Meelis mean?
Recorded meaning: From meelis (“agreeable”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Meelis” — the 48th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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