Mendieta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mendieta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 931
- UYUruguay1 in 1.2K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)
12,596 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mendieta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #212 | 12,596 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Mendieta | 52 |
| AR Argentina | #469 | 12,187 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | Mendieta | 75 |
| CO Colombia | #558 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 8 | Mendieta | 94 |
| NI Nicaragua | #104 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 770 | — | Mendieta | 40 |
| PY Paraguay | #171 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 931 | — | Mendieta | 38 |
| BO Bolivia | #700 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Mendieta | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | #214 | 2,775 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | Mendieta | 31 |
12,596 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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)
Mendieta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, "Région montagneuse" H .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Carlos Mendietab. 1873CUCuban politician (1873-1960)
- Andrés Mendietab. 1945ESSpanish association football player
- Ana Mendietab. 1948USCuban-American artist (1948–1985)
- Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendietab. 1956PACatholic bishop
- Héctor Martínez Mendietab. 1967PYParaguayan footballer
- Gaizka Mendietab. 1974ESSpanish footballer
- Diego Mendietab. 1980PYParaguayan footballer (1980-2012)
- David Mendietab. 1988PYParaguayan footballer
- Emilia Mendietab. 1988ARArgentinian association football player
- Fidel Escobarb. 1995PAnot in their usual namePanamanian association football player
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mendieta mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mendieta have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Mendieta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendieta.
- How common is the name Mendieta?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 12,596 people named Mendieta in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mendieta compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Mendieta is the 212th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mendieta” — the 212th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.