Meana

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Meana is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 38K◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 62K
  • PAPanama1 in 272K

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

≈2.4K ◐

across 11 countries

Sources
52 ●

6.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 38K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Meana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain≈1.3K1.3K rec.1 in 38K1.4KMeana52
AR Argentina≈7343.9K rec.1 in 62K737Meana20
MX Mexico≈182744 rec.1 in 709K—Meana16
BR Brazil≈7547 rec.1 in 2.8M58Meana7
IT Italy≈7045 rec.1 in 886K—Meana15
US United States≈20241 rec.1 in 16M203Meana33
VE Venezuela≈2061 rec.1 in 1.4M—Meana4
CO Colombia≈158 rec.1 in 3.2M—Meana3
PA Panama≈1435 rec.1 in 272K1Meana6
UY Uruguay≈727 rec.1 in 506K—Meana3
HN Honduras≈69 rec.1 in 1.6M—Meana2
SE Sweden———2——

Roughly 1.3K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 38K). 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●

  • Spanish12K72%
  • English2.9K18%
  • Catalan1.4K8%
  • Russian841%
  • French591%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish11,84672%
English2,91118%
Catalan1,3618%
Russian841%
French591%

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

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Benito Meana, b. 1844Tirso Medina, b. 1881Alfonso Camín, b. 1890Manuel Meana, b. 1901José Luis Balbín, b. 1940Juan Carlos Meana, b. 1964Pablo Requena Meana, b. 1969Judy Meana, b. 1974Pablo Meana, b. 1975Fran Meana, b. 1982

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 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Meana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.4K#3,384
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.4K#3,384
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—737—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010203#90,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020186#102,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000160#103,706
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—58#94,441
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#49,263
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#48,405
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520253#591
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#56,613
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#70,469

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-09-06 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meana?
We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Meana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Meana have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.3 thousand people bear Meana in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled meana.
Where is Meana most common?
Meana is densest in Spain, where we estimate about 1 in 38 thousand people carry it.
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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, “Meana”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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