Melendez

Melendez is the 565th most common surname in the United States, shared by 58,520 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,108.

By the numbers

People: 58,520
Rank: 565th
How common: 1 in 5,108
Per 100,000: 19.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Melendez described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Melendez

Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817)Spanish poet
Bill Melendez (1916–2008)American animator, voice actor, film director and producer
Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780)Spanish painter
Julio Meléndez (born 1942)Peruvian footballer
Adolfo Meléndez (1884–1968)Spanish footballer and club chairman
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez (1861–1919)President of El Salvador
Gilbert Melendez (born 1982)American mixed martial artist
Rodrigo Meléndez (born 1977)Chilean footballer

People named Melendez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Melendez

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.