Mendez
165,623 people in America carry this name — ranked #155 of 777.
A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.
Say it mehn DEHZ
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
M EH0 N D EH1 Z — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 165,623 2020 Census
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Rank #155 Common
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As a first name 239 ranked #34,261 the other way round
The meaning and origin of Mendez
Latin in origin, reading literally as “Sunday child”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
Surnames with the same rhythm as Mendez
Ends on the same sound
Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
This name in other languages
- Dunko Slav
- Dinko Slav
- Menzel Serv
- Menico Italian
- Menica Italian
- Domokos Hungarian
- Domogoj Slav
- Domnech Ir
- Dominik Slav
- Dominic Ger.|Eng
- Domingo Spanish
- Dominico Italian
- Dominica Italian
- Domingos Portuguese
Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.
Full names people carry
- Michael Mendez ≈ 1,700 people
- John Mendez ≈ 1,600 people
- James Mendez ≈ 1,500 people
- David Mendez ≈ 1,400 people
- Robert Mendez ≈ 1,400 people
- William Mendez ≈ 1,100 people
- Mary Mendez ≈ 900 people
- Maria Mendez ≈ 800 people
The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.
Try it How Rare Is It?
Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Latin origin