Mendez

At the 2020 census, 165,623 Americans bore the surname Mendez — 155th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,805.

By the numbers

People: 165,623
Rank: 155th
How common: 1 in 1,805
Per 100,000: 55.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 4.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mendez

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942)Cuban cosmonaut
Édison Méndez (born 1979)Ecuadorian footballer
Brais Méndez (born 1997)Spanish association football player
Aparicio Méndez (1904–1988)president of Uruguay
Juan N. Méndez (1820–1894)President of Mexico
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born 1973)Mexican boxer
Jhegson Méndez (born 1997)Ecuadorian association football player
Miguel Abadía Méndez (1867–1947)President of Colombia

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

Surnames like Mendez

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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.