Mondor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly a habitational name from MontDore in Puy-de-D6me (named with Old Frenchmowi ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (Latin genitive mantis) + a pre-Celtic element, dur), or from Saint-Didier au Mont-d’Or in Rhone
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Mondor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 502K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- NONorway1 in 781Kas Mandru
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mondor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 502K (inferred from the name graph)
768 named Mandru
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mandru in IN India.
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)- MontDorein(measured from records)
- Saint-Didierau(measured from records)
possibly a habitational name from MontDore in Puy-de-D6me (named with Old Frenchmowi ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (Latin genitive mantis) + a pre-Celtic element, dur), or from Saint-Didier au Mont-d’Or in Rhone (named with or ‘gold’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mondor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 768as Mandru | 1 in 1.7M | 768 | Mandru | 5 |
| US United States | 663 | 1 in 502K | 670 | Mondor | 33 |
| ES Spain | 22as Mandru | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 7as Mandru | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3as Mandru | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
768 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Mondor 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 French, Apparemment de (Le) Mondor, nom de quelques localités en France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Basque, ( Lar , H ). "(Dejar) horca y pendón en la corta de los montes, mondorretan tantaiak utzi " Lar . "Arbre têtard, tronc d'arbre dépouillé de ses branches. Mondorretan tantaiak uzten ohi dira, izerdiaren deitzale erraten diotenak " H . v. modorro (2).
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Henri Mondorb. 1885FRFrench physician and historian (1885–1962)
- Ben Mondorb. 1925CAAmerican baseball executive
- Luce Mondorb. 1952FRFrench writer
- Émilie Mondorb. 1981CACanadian long-distance runner
- Denis MondorCACanadian lawyer and judge
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 670 | #32,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 663 | #34,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 508 | #45,381 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #100,200 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mondor mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a habitational name from MontDore in Puy-de-D6me (named with Old Frenchmowi ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (Latin genitive mantis) + a pre-Celtic element, dur), or from Saint-Didier au Mont-d’Or in Rhone… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mondor have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 768 people named Mandru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mondor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mondor is densest in the United States — about 1 in 502 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mondor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 663 people named Mondor in 2010, about 1 in 502 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mondorThe 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, “Mondor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.