Mendenhall
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mendenhall is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from either of two places called Mildenhall, in Suffolk and Wiltshire.
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)
habitational name for someone from either of two places called Mildenhall, in Suffolk and Wiltshire. The place in Suffolk may have been named in Old English as ‘middle nook of land’, from middel + halh, or it may be of the same origin as the Wiltshire place name, ‘Milda’s nook of land’, from an unattested Old English personal name + halh. The spelling Mendenhall does not appear in English sources, and this may be a U.S. variant.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mendenhall counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10K | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Mendenhallb. 1829USofficer in the United States Army
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhallb. 1841USAmerican physicist and meteorologist (1841-1924)
- Murray Mendenhallb. 1898USAmerican basketball coach (1898-1972)
- Thomas C. Mendenhallb. 1910USProfessor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College (1910-1998)
- George E. Mendenhallb. 1916USAmerican Lutheran Old Testament scholar (1916-2016)
- Joseph Mendenhallb. 1920USAmerican diplomat
- Bronco Mendenhallb. 1966USAmerican football player and coach (born 1966)
- David Mendenhallb. 1971USAmerican actor
- Erin Mendenhallb. 1980USAmerican politician
- Rashard Mendenhallb. 1987USplayer of American football
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,460 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,291 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #84,659 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6 | #7,134 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #365,524 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mendenhall mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from either of two places called Mildenhall, in Suffolk and Wiltshire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Mendenhall have the most bearers?
- Mendenhall is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mendenhallThe 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, “Mendenhall”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.