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.

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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.

Where Mendenhall is recorded, by country
CountryMost 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.

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Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mendenhall is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian

    Also written Менденхолл

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000John Mendenhall, b. 1829Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, b. 1841Murray Mendenhall, b. 1898Thomas C. Mendenhall, b. 1910George E. Mendenhall, b. 1916Joseph Mendenhall, b. 1920Bronco Mendenhall, b. 1966David Mendenhall, b. 1971Erin Mendenhall, b. 1980Rashard Mendenhall, b. 1987

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.

Official registers attesting Mendenhall
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,499
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,291
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#84,659
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6#7,134
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#365,524
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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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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.

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