At the end of Edo period, there were a little less than thirty Meike and most of them were families of the Hino line of the Fujiwara clan and the Kajuji line of the Fujiwara clan.
幕末時で名家は30家弱を数えるが、その大部分は日野流藤原氏および観修寺流藤原氏の諸家。