Mendá

surname · Latin script

Mendá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pogreška, nedostatak.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 794K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 15K
  • PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K

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.

India (measured from records)

1,671 people

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Menda in IN India, UY Uruguay, US United States and 3 more.

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)

pogreška, nedostatak

Sources 2

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mendá 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 Mendá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,6711 in 794K1.7KMenda85
ID Indonesia≈810 est.≈1 in 328K—Menda47
UY Uruguay2191 in 15K219Menda10
US United States1971 in 1.7M230Menda58
PH Philippines≈90 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Menda7
PG Papua New Guinea≈75 est.≈1 in 97K1——
CZ Czechia481 in 223K48——
PR Puerto Rico≈23 est.≈1 in 139K—Menda5

1,671 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mendá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mendá mean, and where does it come from?
pogreška, nedostatak Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,… and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
In which country does Mendá have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Mendá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menda.
Where is Mendá most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mendá is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mendá?
In India, the national register counted 1,671 people named Mendá, about 1 in 794 thousand residents.

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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, “Mendá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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