Menkès

surname · Latin script

Menkès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from Mencke.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

291 people, 2010

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

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 Menkes in US United States.

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)

patronymic from Mencke.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Menkès 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 Menkès is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2911 in 1.1M301Menkes12
BR Brazil491 in 4.3M49——
PL Poland101 in 3.8M6——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—1
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

291 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)

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

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Hebrew, German

    Also written Menkes, מנקס

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Menkes, Menḳes, Menkés

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Menkes

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 Menkès 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 Menkès mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from Mencke. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Menkès have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 291 people named Menkès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menkes.
Where is Menkès most common?
Menkès is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Menkès?
In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Menkès in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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, “Menkès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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