Menez

surname · Latin script

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

Menez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two possible origins: * Variant spelling of Spanish Menes, mainly found in the Philippines. * Borrowed from French Menez or Ménez, a topographic surname from Breton menez (“mountain”).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 86K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 198K
  • USUnited States1 in 617K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,448 people

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ménez in FR France.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Menez: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Menez
  1. French Menezor(measured from records)
  2. Bretonmenez“mountain”(measured from records)

Two possible origins: * Variant spelling of Spanish Menes, mainly found in the Philippines. * Borrowed from French Menez or Ménez, a topographic surname from Breton menez (“mountain”).

Sources 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Menez 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 Menez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,4481 in 86K2.4KMenez60
FR France≈2,000 est.≈1 in 34K237Ménez2
PH Philippines≈550 est.≈1 in 198K—Menez28
US United States5391 in 617K539Menez110
CO Colombia≈140 est.≈1 in 352K—Menez14
BE Belgium391 in 301K39—3
UY Uruguay201 in 169K20Menez6

2,448 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Menez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Also written Meñez, Ménez, Mënëz, Meněz

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ménez, Meñez

  • Arabic surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Egypt, United States, Philippines

    Also written Meñez, Ménez, Menèz, Mènez, Mênêz

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Also written Ménez

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Also written Meñez, Ménez

38 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)

Menez is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Breton, mountain

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

  • In Breton, mont, montagne

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Basque, MENEZ . (Precedido de bere ). Espontáneamente, por su propia iniciativa . Non, usterik gutxienean, bere menez, asten dan Poli. [...] "Inazio gure patroi aundiya [...]" . Anab Poli 88. Bere menez ari zan izketan; bururatzen zitzaizkion txorakeri guztiak abotik esan [...], urrutitik entzuteko eran . Anab Usauri (ed. 1986) 38.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1850190019502000François Ménez, b. 1887Yann Menez, b. 1943André Menez, b. 1943Bernard Menez, b. 1944Jean-Yves Menez, b. 1953Keith Menez, b. 1978Conner Menez, b. 1995

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 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Menez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.4K#4,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010539#40,554
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020519#44,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000384#51,024
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941338—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971332—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961306—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951303—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921258—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981250—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911246—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991237—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Menez mean, and where does it come from?
Two possible origins: * Variant spelling of Spanish Menes, mainly found in the Philippines. * Borrowed from French Menez or Ménez, a topographic surname from Breton menez (“mountain”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Menez have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Menez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menez.
How common is the name Menez?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,448 people named Menez, about 1 in 86 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, “Menez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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