Menelau
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Menelaus (the king of Mycenaean Sparta)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Menelau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 15M(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus1 in 2.2Kas Μενελαος
- GRGreece≈1 in 25Kas Menelaos
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Menelau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cyprus (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15M (inferred from the name graph)
585 named Μενελαος, 2011
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Menelaos in US United States, CY Cyprus, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Μενελαος in GR Greece.
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)
Menelaus (the king of Mycenaean Sparta)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Menelau 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | 585as Μενελαος | 1 in 2.2K | 585 | Menelaos | 33 |
| GR Greece | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 18 | Μενελαος | 77 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Menelaos | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Menelaos | 27 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Menelaos | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 20as Menelaos | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 189 | Menelau | 27 |
| AL Albania | 11as Menelaos | 1 in 280K | 11 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
585 people counted by CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011, counting the spelling μενελαος. 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 189 | #38,448 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Menelau mean, and where does it come from?
- Menelaus (the king of Mycenaean Sparta) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Menelau have the most bearers?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted about 585 people named Μενελαος, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Menelau?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 585 people named Μενελαος in 2011, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menelauThe 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, “Menelau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.