Mentes
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: second-person singular present subjunctive of mentir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛntiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mentes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 238K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 292K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 437K
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)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 238K (inferred from the name graph)
889 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Menteş in TR Türkiye.
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)
second-person singular present subjunctive of mentir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mentes is read(measured from records)
Mentes is one spelling over 6 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.
- English46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mentes in English.
- Turkish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mentes in Turkish.
- German11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mentes in German.
- Spanish9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mentes in Spanish.
- French5.6%
second-person singular present subjunctive of mentir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.3%
second-person singular present indicative of mentir
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Mentes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 889 | 1 in 238K | 889 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Mentes | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 521K | — | Mentes | 51 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Mentes | 76 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 950K | — | Menteş | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | Mentes | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
889 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mentes is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, meanwhile, in the mean time
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, free of, exempt from, devoid of (completely without), -less (free from something: -tól/-től)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mēns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, quantité approximative, proportionnelle
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Vasfi Menteşb. 1886TRTurkish diplomat and statesperson (1886–1973)
- Cevdet Menteşb. 1915TRTurkish statesperson (1915–2002)
- Halim Menteşb. 1921TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1921–1964)
- Endre Mentesb. 1925HUHungarian architect
- József Mentesb. 1925HUHungarian actor
- Yalçın Menteşb. 1960TRTurkish actor (1960–2019)
- Murat Menteşb. 1974TRTurkish writer (born 1974)
- Tevfik Onur MenteşTRTurkish researcher
- Ayfer MenteşTRTurkish researcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 889 | #10,304 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #16,878 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,058 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Mentes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of mentir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mentes?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛntiz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mentes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 889 people named Mentes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mentes most common?
- Mentes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 238 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mentes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 889 people named Mentes, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mentes?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mentesThe 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, “Mentes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.