Melèndez
surname · Latin script
Melèndez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 28th most common surname. Recorded meaning: variant of Menendez (see Menendez). Melèndez is also written Мелендез in Cyrillic.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 290
- HNHonduras≈1 in 620
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #783 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190 (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Melèndez in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melendez in US United States, MX Mexico, PE Peru and 6 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)variant of Menendez (see Menendez).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Melèndez is found
(measured from records)Melèndez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #225 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1.6K | Melendez | 189 |
| US United States | #521 | 56,230 | 1 in 5.9K | 59K | Melendez | 437 |
| VE Venezuela | #134 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 730 | — | Melendez | 85 |
| PE Peru | #136 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Melendez | 102 |
| CO Colombia | #355 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 10 | Melendez | 113 |
| SV El Salvador | #54 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 287 | 23K | Melendez | 75 |
| HN Honduras | #89 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 620 | — | Melendez | 44 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #28 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | — | Melendez | 81 |
| CR Costa Rica | #135 | 7,671 | 1 in 665 | 7.7K | Melendez | 78 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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
- What does the name Melèndez mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Menendez (see Menendez). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Melèndez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Melèndez in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melendez. After it come United States, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Melèndez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 56,230 people named Melèndez in 2010, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Melèndez compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Melèndez is the 225th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%A8ndezThe 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, “Melèndez” — ranked 233rd in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.