Mendia
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mend̪ja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mendia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Mendía, a surname of Basque origin.
- ESSpain1 in 35K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 48K
- USUnited States1 in 594K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,427 people
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Mendía, a surname of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mendia 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.
1,427 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mendia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of mendier
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, absolutive singular of mendi
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)
- Ambrogio Mendiab. 1813ITItalian mathematician and physicist (1813-1888)
- Pedro Asúa Mendíab. 1890ESSpanish Roman Catholic priest and engineer
- Lia Mendia Vozzob. 1944ITItalian Romance philologist (1944-)
- Antxone Telleria Mendiab. 1956ESBasque teacher
- Borja Percebin del Cantabricob. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1994)
- Uxue Mendia Fernándezb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
- Eñaut Mendiab. 1999ESSpanish professional footballer
- Fabiana MendiaITItalian art historian
- Juan F. OruetaESnot in their usual nameresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,241 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,240 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 948 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 595 | #39,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 560 | #39,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 440 | #45,735 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Mendia mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Mendía, a surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Mendia?
- A machine transcription gives /mend̪ja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mendia have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Mendia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendia.
- How common is the name Mendia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,427 people named Mendia, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Mendia compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Mendia is the 782nd most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mendia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mendiaThe 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, “Mendia” — the 782nd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.