Mendeš
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mendeš 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)
- UYUruguay1 in 86as Mendez
- CRCosta Rica1 in 114as Mendez
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mendeš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
161,717 named Mendez, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mendez in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 1 more and Mendes in CH Switzerland.
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.
Sources 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)
Mendeš 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 | 161,717as Mendez | 1 in 2.1K | 166K | Mendez | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 90,174as Mendez | 1 in 504 | 90K | Mendez | 1 |
| ES Spain | 77,195as Mendez | 1 in 648 | 77K | Mendez | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | 44,680as Mendez | 1 in 114 | 45K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 41,432as Mendez | 1 in 408 | 41K | Mendez | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 39,366as Mendez | 1 in 86 | 39K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3,574 | 1 in 2.4K | 3.6K | Mendes | 1 |
161,717 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mendeš 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 Mendeš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 162 thousand people named Mendez, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mendeš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mendeš 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 Mendeš?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,574 people named Mendeš in 2024, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mendeš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mende%C5%A1The 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, “Mendeš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.