Menelaus

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War

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

Menelaus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.5M(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 18M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Menelaus 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈24 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

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:

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)

The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Menelaus 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 Menelaus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈24 est.≈1 in 4.5M—Menelaus5
SE Sweden20as Menelaos1 in 510K20——
US United States≈17 est.≈1 in 19M—Menelaus15
AL Albania11as Menelaos1 in 280K11——
GB United Kingdom≈3 est.≈1 in 25M—Menelaus8
DK Denmark3as Menelaos1 in 2M3——
AU Australia≈1 est.≈1 in 18M1Menelaus10

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Menelaus is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Greek, English, Portuguese

    Also written Menelaos, Μενελαος, Menelau, Μενέλαος, Menélaos

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Menelaos, Ménélaos

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Menelaos

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Menelaus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, king of Sparta & husband of Helen

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Latin, Menelaus, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Menelaus of Alexandria, b. 70Menelaus, b. 400Menelaus of Pelagonia, b. 400Menelaos Lountemis, b. 1912Menelaus Pallantios, b. 1914Menelaos Stefanidis, b. 1923Mihály Menelaos Zeke, b. 1982Menelaos Efstathiou, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Menelaus mean, and where does it come from?
The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Menelaus a male or female name?
Menelaus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Menelaus have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 people named Menelaus in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menelaus.
How common is the name Menelaus?
In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Menelaos, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.

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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, “Menelaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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