Mennen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: patronymic from a Germanic name formed with the initial element man ‘man’ or magin ‘strength’, ‘might’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mennen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from a Germanic name formed with the initial element man ‘man’ or magin ‘strength’, ‘might’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mennen is read(measured from records)
Mennen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English65%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mennen in English.
- German13%
patronymischer Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Meinhard/Meinhard; 176 Träger
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
176 Träger; patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Menne/Meno.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Dutch9.4%
patronymic from a Germanic name formed with the initial element man ‘man’ or magin ‘strength’, ‘might’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
(transitive) to lead (a) draught animal(s)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Mennen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, inflection of mennä:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Haitian Creole, to lead
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)
- Vic Mennenb. 1940BEBelgian historian
- Cor Mennenb. 1945NLDutch priest
- Leo Mennenb. 1952NLDutch painter (born 1952)
- Ineke Mennenb. 1960GBresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-2757-0818
- Robert Mennenb. 1985DEGerman cyclist
- Julia Mennenb. 2002NLDutch association football player
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.2K | #1,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 440 | #51,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 422 | #49,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 414 | #48,021 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 106 | #14,849 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mennen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a Germanic name formed with the initial element man ‘man’ or magin ‘strength’, ‘might’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mennen have the most bearers?
- Mennen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Mennen?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mennenThe 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, “Mennen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.