Menden

loc · Latin script

Meaning: from the place names Menden in Rhineland/Westphalia

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Menden is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • PLPoland
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the place names Menden in Rhineland/Westphalia.

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Menden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Menden is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany——Menden71
PL Poland——Menden1
US United States—434Menden139
NO Norway—16—1
CH Switzerland—13—7

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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Menden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, habitational name from any of several places so named in the Rhineland.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Galician, inflection of mendar:

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

  • In odt, to rejoice, to cheer

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

  • In zza, reach a standstill

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

  • In enm, cure

    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)

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Menden
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020434#51,779
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000423#47,210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010413#50,564
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#47,335
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Menden mean, and where does it come from?
from the place names Menden in Rhineland/Westphalia. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Menden have the most bearers?
Menden is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled menden.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Menden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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