Mendo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Galician-Portuguese contraction of Menendo

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

Mendo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 32K
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 7K

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.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,000 people, est.

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Galician-Portuguese contraction of Menendo.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mendo 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.

Where Mendo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 7K—Mendo3
PE Peru—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 9.8K—Mendo62
ES Spain—1,5761 in 32K1.6KMendo89
BO Bolivia#882≈1,100 est.≈1 in 11K—Mendo14
BR Brazil—5341 in 396K534Mendo53
PT Portugal—≈190 est.≈1 in 54KlistedMendo31

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mendo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mendük, Menduek, Menduk, Mêndô

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon, Belgium, Peru

    Also written Menduk

51 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mendo 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.

  • The way.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of mendare

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

  • In Latin, dative/ablative singular of mendum

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

  • In Esperanto, order (for goods or services)

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

  • In Polish, vocative singular of menda

    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)

190019502000Luis Mazo Mendo, b. 1902Consuelo Guerrero de Luna, b. 1905Carlos Mendo, b. 1933Luis Mendo, b. 1948Javier Mendo, b. 2000

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Mendo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#2,966
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,966
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—534#16,063

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Mendo mean, and where does it come from?
Galician-Portuguese contraction of Menendo. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
In which country does Mendo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Mendo in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendo.
How common is the name Mendo?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,576 people named Mendo, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Mendo compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Mendo is the 882nd most common surname of 29,432 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, “Mendo” — the 882nd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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