Family name Menelaos (Menelaos 
, Μενέλαος , Менелаос 
) , all over the world, is quite a rare cognomen. The cognomen Menelaos is habitual in Greece, where it is quite a common surname, Cyprus, where it is quite a rare surname, and Bulgaria, where it is a rare surname. Likewise, Menelaos is the forename as well as the last name.