Méndes
surname · Latin script
Méndes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mendo + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Méndez.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 2.8K
- GDGrenada1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
10,162 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mendes in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 2 more.
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 Mendo + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Méndez.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Méndes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,162 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Mendes | 110 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,066 | 1 in 12K | 4.1K | Mendes | 81 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,574 | 1 in 2.4K | 3.6K | — | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,139 | 1 in 21K | 2.1K | Mendes | 69 |
| IN India | — | 1,696 | 1 in 782K | 1.7K | — | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | #906 | 614 | 1 in 5.5K | 614 | Mendes | 29 |
| HR Croatia | — | 379 | 1 in 11K | 379 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 39 | 1 in 2.9K | 39 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 27 | 1 in 2.8K | 27 | — | — |
| HN Honduras | #511 | — | — | — | Mendes | 14 |
10,162 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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
- What does the name Méndes mean, and where does it come from?
- From Mendo + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Méndez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Méndes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Méndes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendes.
- Where is Méndes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Méndes is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Méndes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,162 people named Méndes in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Méndes compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Méndes is the 511th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9ndesThe 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, “Méndes” — the 511th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.