Mennes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mennes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymischer Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Meinhard/Meinhard; 35 Träger.
- BEBelgium1 in 46K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
317 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymischer Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Meinhard/Meinhard; 35 Träger
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mennes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 317 | 1 in 55K | 317 | Mennes | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 253 | 1 in 46K | 272 | Mennes | 5 |
| US United States | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 181 | Mennes | 30 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Mennes | 1 |
317 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mennes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, 35 Träger; patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Menne/Meno.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Sir John Mennesb. 1599GBRoyal Navy admiral (1599-1671)
- Loet Mennesb. 1934NLDutch economist and professor (1934–2018)
- Rob Mennesb. 1947BEBelgian politician
- Wim Mennesb. 1977BEBelgian footballer
- Joppe Mennesb. 2003BEBelgian basketball player (born 2003)
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 317 | #6,455 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 272 | #6,389 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 253 | #6,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 181 | #93,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 170 | #110,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Mennes mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymischer Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Meinhard/Meinhard; 35 Träger
- In which country does Mennes have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 317 people named Mennes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mennes.
- Where is Mennes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mennes is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mennes?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 317 people named Mennes in 2007, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mennesThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mennes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.