# Mee (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,191 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,798 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 140,915 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.0% (2,170 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee. * As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus. * (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mee in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 7.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mee in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Mee

- Margaret Mee, British botanical artist (1909-1988)
- Darnell Mee, Australian basketball player (born 1971)

## Similar surnames

Mei, Meh, Mey, May, Mayo, Ma, Moya, Mai, Moua, Moe, Maya, Mayhew.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.