Mendes

At the 2020 census, 10,283 Americans bore the surname Mendes — 3,398th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,100.

By the numbers

People: 10,283
Rank: 3,398th
How common: 1 in 29,100
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.8%
Hispanic or Latino 20.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mendes

Eva Mendes (born 1974)American actress and model
Shawn Mendes (born 1998)Canadian singer
Sam Mendes (born 1965)British stage and film director
Nuno Mendes (born 2002)Portuguese footballer
Tiago Mendes (born 1981)Portuguese footballer and manager
Camila Mendes (born 1994)American actress
Sérgio Mendes (1941–2024)Brazilian musician
Ryan Mendes (born 1990)Cape Verdean footballer

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

Surnames like Mendes

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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.