Merengue
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Merengue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.8M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8M (inferred from the name graph)
31 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Merengue is read
(measured from records)Merengue 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.
- French33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Merengue in French.
- Spanish23%
merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Merengue in Arabic.
- Portuguese9.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Merengue in Portuguese.
- English5.8%
dance
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Merengue 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 | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | Merengue | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Merengue | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Merengue | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Merengue | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Merengue | 5 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | — | Merengue | 4 |
| AO Angola | — | — | — | Merengue | 2 |
31 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). 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)Merengue 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 Finnish, merengue (music and dance)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Merengue mean, and where does it come from?
- merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Merengue have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 people named Merengue, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merengue.
- Where is Merengue most common?
- Merengue is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Merengue?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31 people named Merengue, about 1 in 6.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merengueThe 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, “Merengue”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.