Meo

Borrowed from Italian Meo.

Meo (plural Meos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Meo is the 26932^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 901 individuals. Meo is most common among White (87.24%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Meo”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 576.

Meo (plural Meos or Meo)

1. A member of the Miao people.
   • 1967, Harrison E. Salisbury, “To the Faery Station”, in Orbit of China‎, 1st edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

     One group of friendlys was the Meo tribe, a tribe which was to be found only on mountainsides at the level of 3,000 to 3,500 feet. These people were extremely fond of French piasters--of the issues prior to 1901. They melted down the silver or sewed the piasters into their clothing. They used silve to decorate the muzzles of the flintlocks which they made for themselves and they used it for pipe decorations, bracelets, necklaces, headwear, dowries, whip handles and dagger shafts.
     The Meos were on excellent terms with U.S. AID. They were independent hillsmen.

• 'ome, -ome, EOM, Emo, MOE, MoE, Moe, OEM, OME, emo, moe, moé

From a short form of the personal name Bartolomeo, Romeo or Tolomeo.

Meo m or f by sense

1. a surname transferred from the given name

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2024