The Mees surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 997 people carried this name — #24,934 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 294,100 people counted. That is up 3% from 970 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,651 people named Mees live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 133 people named Mees.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
38 people named Mees live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Mees,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gregorius Mees 1631–1694 -
Willem Mees 1813–1884 · jurist -
Rudolf Mees (1815-1899) 1815–1899 · banker -
Marten Mees 1828–1917 · banker -
Rudolph Mees 1665–1702
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Rudolphus Mees 1728–1811 · banker
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mees.
- Medin 370 · U.S. census
- Medina 188,497 · U.S. census
- Medinger 468 · U.S. census
- Medrano 40,261 · U.S. census
- Meersman 256 · U.S. census
- Meert 255 · U.S. census
- Megel 169 · U.S. census
- Meger 318 · U.S. census
- Meglio 376 · U.S. census
- Mehal 209 · U.S. census
- Mehdi 784 · U.S. census
- Mehl 2,936 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Mees is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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