Menu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: slim, small, fine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məny/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Menu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 19K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 96K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
slim, small, fine
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Menu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 506 | Menu | 242 |
| BE Belgium | 628 | 1 in 19K | 628 | Menu | 43 |
| GH Ghana | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Menu | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 88 | 1 in 96K | 88 | Menu | 16 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Menu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, instrumental singular of menas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, accusative singular of mena
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)
- Pierre Menub. 1896FRFrench composer
- Roger Menub. 1910FRFrench politician (1910–1970)
- Michel Menub. 1916FRFrench engineer
- Henri Menub. 1925FRFrench zoologist
- Bernadette Menub. 1938FRFrench historian and egyptologist (1938–2023)
- Jan Menub. 1962NLDutch jazz saxophonist and composer
- Alain Menub. 1963CHSwiss racing driver
- Jean-Christophe Menub. 1964FRcartoonist
- Mathijs Menub. 2005NLDutch association football player
- Dominique MenuFRFrench economist specializing in post-Soviet countries
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 721 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 639 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 628 | #2,337 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 626 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 624 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 601 | #2,473 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 572 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 506 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 493 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 452 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 398 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 372 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Menu mean, and where does it come from?
- slim, small, fine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Menu?
- A machine transcription gives /məny/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Menu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Menu in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menu.
- How common is the name Menu?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 628 people named Menu in 2008, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Menu?
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/menuThe 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, “Menu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.