Mendonca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Mendon9a, in Portugal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mendõkɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mendonca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 85th most common surname.
- BRBrazil1 in 616(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 91K
- GYGuyana1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- 1 in 616 (inferred from the name graph)
343,744 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Mendon9a, in Portugal.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mendonca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 343,744 | 1 in 616 | 344K | Mendonca | 6 |
| US United States | — | 3,654 | 1 in 91K | 3.7K | Mendonca | 263 |
| GY Guyana | #85 | 611 | 1 in 1.2K | 611 | Mendonca | 9 |
| IN India | — | 334 | 1 in 4M | 334 | Mendonca | 79 |
| AR Argentina | — | 276 | 1 in 165K | 276 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 266 | 1 in 32K | 266 | Mendonca | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 189 | 1 in 18K | 189 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 5 | 1 in 11K | 5 | — | 3 |
343,744 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivor Mendoncab. 1934INWest Indian cricketer (1934-2014)
- Gilbert Mendoncab. 1952INIndian politician
- Clive Mendoncab. 1968GBEnglish footballer (born 1968)
- Gaelyn Mendoncab. 1988INIndian actress
- Tommy Mendoncab. 1988USAmerican baseball player
- Leon Luke Mendoncab. 2006INIndian chess player
- Sandhya MendoncaINIndian writer, editor and publisher
- Stacey MendoncaNZNew Zealand women in construction advocate
- Gustavo MendoncaBRBrazilian artist
- Kevin MendoncaITresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 344K | #121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,450 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 611 | #181 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 371 | #339 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 334 | #12,394 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 276 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 189 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 36 | #527 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #12,880 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mendonca mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Mendon9a, in Portugal. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mendonca?
- A machine transcription gives /mendõkɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Mendonca have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 344 thousand people named Mendonca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendonca.
- Where is Mendonca most common?
- Mendonca is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 616 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mendonca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 343,744 people named Mendonca, about 1 in 616 residents.
- How common is Mendonca compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Mendonca is the 85th most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mendoncaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mendonca” — the 85th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.