Mendo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Galician-Portuguese contraction of Menendo
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/ˈmendo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mendo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 12Kfew records
- GAGabon≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Galician-Portuguese contraction of Menendo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mendo is found
(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.
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)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)- Consuelo Guerrero de Lunab. 1905ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress and comedian (1905–1972)
- Carlos Mendob. 1933ESSpanish journalist (1933-2010)
- Javier Mendob. 2000ESSpanish actor
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
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.
- How do you pronounce Mendo?
- In Spanish /ˈmendo/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mendo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Mendo in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendo. After it come Peru, Mexico, Spain and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Mendo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mendoThe 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, “Mendo” — the 882nd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.