Meñ

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Meñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 267K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 342K
  • BRBrazil1 in 410K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,245 people, 2010

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Men in BR Brazil and Mēn in ES Spain.

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)

Derivation of Meñ: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Meñ
  1. Middle Englishmen(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishmenn“people”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*manniz(measured from records)

From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.

Sources 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meñ 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.

Where Meñ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2451 in 267K5.2K—64
BR Brazil5161 in 410K516Men58
NO Norway161 in 342K16—3
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15Mēn31
IN India131 in 102M13—6
BE Belgium121 in 977K12—1
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—4

1,245 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meñ is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Algeria, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Men, Mến, Mën, Mèn, Męn

  • French surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria

    Also written Men, Mën, Mèn, Mëñ, Męn

  • Indonesian surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, Algeria, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay

    Also written Men, Mëņ, Mèn, Méň, Méņ

  • Bulgarian name36 spellings in the group

    Also written Мен, Maine, Mến, Mèn, Maïné

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Meñ 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 Tatar, thousand

    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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meñ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Meñ mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 6 other sources.
In which country does Meñ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Meñ, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Meñ most common?
Meñ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 267 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Meñ?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,245 people named Meñ in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.

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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, “Meñ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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