Mêñ
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mêñ 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”).
- 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)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)
1,245 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
- Middle Englishmen(measured from records)
- Old Englishmenn“people”(measured from records)
- 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)
Mêñ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,245 | 1 in 267K | 5.2K | — | 34 |
| BR Brazil | 516 | 1 in 410K | 516 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | — | 8 |
| IN India | 13 | 1 in 102M | 13 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mêñ 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 Mêñ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Mêñ, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mêñ most common?
- Mêñ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 267 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mêñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,245 people named Mêñ in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AA%C3%B1The 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, “Mêñ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.