Menendez

Menendez is the 3,037th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,548 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 25,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,548
Rank: 3,037th
How common: 1 in 25,900
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Menéndez.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.7%
White, not Hispanic 10.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Menendez

Bob Menendez (born 1954)American lawyer and politician
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856–1912)Spanish scholar
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968)Spanish philologist
Osleidys Menéndez (born 1979)Cuban athletics competitor
Manuel Menéndez (1793–1847)President of Peru
Jonathan Rodríguez Menéndez (born 1991)Spanish footballer
Norberto Menéndez (1936–1994)Argentine footballer
Alfonso Menéndez (born 1966)Spanish archer

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

Surnames like Menendez

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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.