Mena

20,019 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mena in the 2020 census, making it the 1,746th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 20,019
Rank: 1,746th
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.7%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mena

Ana Mena (born 1997)Spanish singer-songwriter, actress and model
Maria Mena (born 1986)Norwegian singer
Eugenio Mena (born 1988)Chilean footballer
Angel Mena Pedroza (born 1988)Ecuadorian Footballer
Mario Mena (1923–2013)Bolivian footballer
Federico Mena (born 1976)Mexican computer scientist and programmer
Jesús Mena (born 1968)diver
Antonio Ortiz Mena (1907–2007)President of the Inter-American Development Bank and Secretary of Finance of Mexico.

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

Surnames like Mena

Also a first name

Mena has been given to 1,678 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.