Menesês
surname · Latin script
Menesês is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Meneses. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico.
- UYUruguay1 in 761(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K
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 Menesês itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- 1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)
118,708 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meneses in BR Brazil, PE Peru, CL Chile and 4 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)Borrowed from Spanish Meneses. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Menesês 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #281 | 118,708 | 1 in 1.8K | 119K | Meneses | 149 |
| CO Colombia | #199 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 24 | Meneses | 144 |
| PH Philippines | #539 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Meneses | 79 |
| VE Venezuela | #292 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Meneses | 70 |
| PE Peru | #367 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Meneses | 74 |
| CL Chile | #199 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Meneses | 124 |
| NI Nicaragua | #135 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Meneses | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,451 | 1 in 761 | 4.5K | — | 43 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4,278 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.3K | — | 61 |
118,708 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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 Menesês mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Meneses. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Menesês have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Menesês, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meneses.
- Where is Menesês most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Menesês is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 761 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Menesês?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 118,708 people named Menesês, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Menesês compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Menesês is the 281st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menes%C3%AAsThe 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, “Menesês” — the 281st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.