Mendèz
surname · Latin script
Mendèz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Méndez from Mendo+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- UYUruguay1 in 86(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 114
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 160
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 Mendèz 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #154 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 468 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86 (inferred from the name graph)
≈610,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
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)Locally spelled Mendez in MX Mexico, US United States, VE Venezuela and 1 more, Mendes in PT Portugal, AO Angola and Méndez in UY Uruguay, GT Guatemala.
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 Spanish Méndez from Mendo+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mendèz 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 | #33 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | 11K | Mendez | 260 |
| US United States | #202 | 161,717 | 1 in 2.1K | 166K | Mendez | 468 |
| VE Venezuela | #37 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | 775 | Mendez | 116 |
| GT Guatemala | #181 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 157 | — | Méndez | 104 |
| AO Angola | #18 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | 2 | Mendes | 65 |
| PT Portugal | #23 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | — | Mendes | 199 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 32 | 85K | — | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | #26 | 44,680 | 1 in 114 | 45K | Mendez | 126 |
| UY Uruguay | #473 | 39,366 | 1 in 86 | 39K | Méndez | 89 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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 Mendèz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Méndez from Mendo+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . 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 Mendèz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 611 thousand people named Mendèz in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendez.
- Where is Mendèz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mendèz is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 86 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mendèz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161,717 people named Mendèz in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Mendèz compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Mendèz is the 33rd 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/mend%C3%A8zThe 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, “Mendèz” — the 33rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.