Meme

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Même in DZ Algeria and Меме in KG Kyrgyzstan.

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●

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Meme is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name5.1K records spelled Meme54 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Memé, Mëmë, Mémé, Me-Me, Mëme

• French given name4.1K records spelled Meme32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Syria, United Kingdom

  Also written Mémé, Même, Mèmè, Memé, Méme

• Amharic given name291 records spelled Meme3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Syria, United Kingdom

  Also written መሜ, Même

• a separate given name208 records spelled Meme6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Ethiopia

  Also written Memé, Memè, Même, Mémé, Memê

• Italian given name198 records spelled Meme5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Syria

  Also written Memè, Meme', Memé, Mèmè

• Romanian given name167 records spelled Meme3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, United States, Israel, South Africa

  Also written Mëmě, Même

• Burmese given name164 records spelled Meme4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), United States, Syria

  Also written Mémé, Mèmë, Mèmê

• Croatian given name149 records spelled Meme14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Syria, Croatia, South Africa

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian

  Also written Меме, Mémé, Même

36 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●

Meme 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 Spanish, meme (unit of cultural information)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In tuw-pro, 1 breast (female), udder 2 foster-mother

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Latin, emphatic form of mē (“me”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, meme (media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In bwd, fibrous part of the betel nut that is ejected from the mouth

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 73 years between 1921–1998. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Meme Bianchib. 1907ITItalian singer (1907-2000)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 144 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meme?

We estimate roughly 614 people bear Meme (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.

In which country does Meme have the most bearers?

Meme is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled meme.

How common is Meme compared with other names?

In Syria, Meme is the 367th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.

Is Meme a male or female name?

Meme is a female 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 Meme mean?

Recorded meaning: Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.