Meneses

Meneses is the 4,306th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,976 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 37,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,976
Rank: 4,306th
How common: 1 in 37,500
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Meneses. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 76.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 11.6%
White, not Hispanic 10.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Meneses

Alex Meneses (born 1965)American actress
Maria Romero Meneses (1902–1977)Salesian sister
Fernando Meneses (born 1985)Chilean footballer
Josep Àngel Saiz Meneses (born 1956)Spanish Catholic bishop

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

Surnames like Meneses

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.