Merenda

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

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)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Merenda is read●(measured from records)

Merenda is one spelling over 5 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.

• English54%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Merenda in English.

• Spanish15%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Merenda in Spanish.

• Portuguese7.7%

  a meal eaten by students in school

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Italian7.1%

  from merenda, from Late Latin merenda ‘evening meal’; however, it may have retained the meaning of Latin merere ‘to merit’ in the sense ‘worthy cause’, ‘thing of merit’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  from merenda ‘light meal’, cognate with 1.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  snack (usually an afternoon snack)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French5.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Merenda in French.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Merenda 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 Latin, collation, light evening meal, an afternoon luncheon

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, nuncheon; late afternoon snack

  as a word·kaikki.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)

• Claudio Merendab. 1921ITItalian politician
• Luc Merendab. 1943FRFrench actor
• Mark Merendab. 1975Australian rules footballer
• Elda Merendab. 1981ITItalian librarian (born 1981)
• Andrea MerendaAUresearcher

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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Merenda come from?

from merenda, from Late Latin merenda ‘evening meal’; however, it may have retained the meaning of Latin merere ‘to merit’ in the sense ‘worthy cause’, ‘thing of merit’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Merenda?

A machine transcription gives /mɛˈɹeɪndɑ/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Merenda mean?

In Portuguese, a meal eaten by students in school

In which country does Merenda have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 830 people named Merenda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merenda.

Where is Merenda most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Merenda is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 114 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Merenda?

In the United States, the national register counted 830 people named Merenda in 2010, about 1 in 401 thousand residents.