Mensah

Mensah is the 5,317th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,325 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,325
Rank: 5,317th
How common: 1 in 47,300
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 93.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Mensah

Jonathan Mensah (born 1990)Ghanaian footballer
John Mensah (born 1982)Ghanaian footballer
Peter Mensah (born 1959)English-Ghanaian actor
Gideon Mensah (born 1998)association football player
Tamyra Mensah-Stock (born 1992)American wrestler
Francisca Oteng-Mensah (born 1993)Ghanaian politician and businesswoman
Betty Crosby Mensah (born 1980)Ghanaian politician
Cédric Mensah (born 1989)French, Beninese and Togolese footballer

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

Surnames like Mensah

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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.