Meñin

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meñin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Menico.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 61K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 208K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 73K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,454 people

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Menin in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, IT Italy 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)

Variante di Menico

Sources 2

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meñin 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.

Where Meñin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3,4541 in 61K3.5KMenin88
IT Italy≈860 est.≈1 in 73KlistedMenin36
FR France≈540 est.≈1 in 125K55Menin1
AR Argentina2191 in 208K219Menin39
US United States1461 in 2.3M146Menin41
BE Belgium501 in 234K50—2

3,454 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meñin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Menin

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meñin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Meñin mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Menico Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
Is Meñin a male or female name?
Meñin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Meñin have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Meñin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menin.
Where is Meñin most common?
Meñin is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 61 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Meñin?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,454 people named Meñin, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Meñin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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