Ménas
surname · Latin script
Ménas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 38K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 367K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 463K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
347 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From grc Mēnás, from μήν ‘mes’: ‘relativo al mes’, ‘mensual’.
Cited for this meaning 2
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- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ménas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 347 | 1 in 610K | 347 | — | — |
| US United States | 218 | 1 in 1.5M | 220 | — | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 124 | 1 in 367K | 124 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 88 | 1 in 38K | 88 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 11 | 1 in 463K | 11 | — | — |
347 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ménas have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 347 people named Ménas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ménas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ménas is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ménas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 347 people named Ménas, about 1 in 610 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ménas?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9nasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ménas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.