Meti

surname · Hindi · Latin script

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

Meti is a surname, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Kannada, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 182◐
  • GEGeorgia1 in 293
  • ZMZambia1 in 1.5K

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

≈78K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
171 ●

72K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 182 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

MateLatin · Hungarian●702K records
ᲛათეGeorgian · Georgian●15K records
มิตThai · Thai●524 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mate in HU Hungary, ES Spain, US United States and 15 more, Máté in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, เมธี in TH Thailand and Მათე in GE Georgia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Meti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#4853,590△11K rec.1 in 18254KMate145
IN India—43,39422K rec.—4.1KMeti74
TH Thailand#62330,72616K rec.—#478,367เมธี96
GE Georgia#18413,658△2.9K rec.1 in 29314KᲛათე44
HR Croatia—8,696△5 rec.1 in 4868.7K—3
ZM Zambia#2121,3739 rec.—3Mate8
DE Germany—1,3631.8K rec.—1Mate85
BR Brazil—763△3 rec.1 in 277K795—2
AT Austria—674262 rec.—139Mate41
US United States—66611K rec.1 in 499K1.6KMate171
AU Australia—5721.7K rec.——Mate69
GB United Kingdom—5161K rec.——Mate62

Roughly 54K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 182). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Hindi30K53%
  • Kannada13K22%
  • 7.3K13%
  • English1.3K2%
  • Turkish9092%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi29,99253%
Kannada12,68722%
7,34213%
English1,2832%
Turkish9092%

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◐

Meti is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname8.2K records spelled Meti2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Metī

  • English surname2.8K records spelled Meti4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Germany, Australia, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Métí

  • Turkish surname1.7K records spelled Meti7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Italy, Switzerland

    Also written Metì, Metî, Mêtï, Mëţī

  • Albanian surname626 records spelled Meti10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Metì, Métî, Mètï, Metî, Metí

  • Spanish surname382 records spelled Meti4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Metí, Mètí

  • Amharic given name374 records spelled Meti5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, India

    Also written ሜቲ, መቲ, ሜጢ, Meeti

41 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●

Meti is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, (Japan) Abbreviation of Ministry of Economy, Trade, and, Industry.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, second-person singular past indicative of mest

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In xbr, die; dead; go out (fire); be eclipsed (sun)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of mesti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, present passive infinitive of metō

    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.

Over time●

0204060801920194019601980200080 · 1961

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Meti in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19182
19204
19219
19225
19236
19244
192510
19269
19278
192810
192911
193019
193126
193221
193329
193416
193529
193628
193711
193825
193925
194043
194141
194232
194334
194433
194559
194662
194727
194853
194941
195058
195172
195237
195334
195437
195559
195659
195746
195861
195970
196064
196180
196265
196358
196442
196570
196662
196755
196849
196947
197039
197136
197231
197338
197417
197526
197624
197717
197835
197925
198041
198144
198233
198334
198421
198528
198613
198718
198823
198922
199025
199124
199242
199319
199410
199512
19962
19971
19985
20072
20111
20133
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Meti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—13K#56
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.4K#4,111
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#12,840
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—38#5,091
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—34#14,823
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—23#4,638
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21#23,777
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#29,286
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,790
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—19#4,638
CK Cook IslandsCook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua)202212#47
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10#39,074

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 175 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meti?
We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Meti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Meti have the most bearers?
We estimate about 54 thousand people bear Meti in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mate.
Where is Meti most common?
Meti is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 182 people carrying it.
How common is Meti compared with other names?
In Hungary, Meti is the 48th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
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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, “Meti” — the 48th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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