Mendieta

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mendieta is a surname, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 811◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 966
  • ECEcuador1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈77K ◐

across 13 countries

Sources
119 ●

246K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 811 ◐

Nicaragua

Meaning & origin●

habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Mendieta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#594≈24K98K rec.1 in 5.3K579Mendieta57
AR Argentina#474≈10K49K rec.1 in 4.5K12KMendieta37
CO Colombia#544≈9.6K5.1K rec.1 in 5.1K8Mendieta45
NI Nicaragua#135≈7.7K17K rec.1 in 811—Mendieta20
PY Paraguay#153≈7.4K12K rec.1 in 966—Mendieta14
EC Ecuador#596≈6.3K△529 rec.1 in 2.7K13KMendieta19
PE Peru#824≈3.9K29K rec.1 in 8.2K—Mendieta29
ES Spain—≈3K3.4K rec.1 in 17K3.3KMendieta59
BR Brazil—≈2.4K1.3K rec.1 in 87K509Mendieta17
US United States—≈1.7K14K rec.1 in 195K4.6KMendieta119
UY Uruguay#233≈9573.7K rec.1 in 3.5K—Mendieta11
AO Angola—≈342△19 rec.1 in 95K—Mendieta2

Roughly 24K people in Mexico bear this name (about 1 in 5.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish273K84%
  • English32K10%
  • Catalan3.3K1%
  • Portuguese1.3K1%
  • German3281%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish273,02784%
English32,45510%
Catalan3,2971%
Portuguese1,2991%
German3281%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Over time●

010020030019502000259 · 1995

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Mendieta in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2024
Yearrecords
19011
19031
19043
19051
19078
19084
19096
191011
19118
19129
191311
19147
191511
191611
19174
191822
191910
192015
192111
192210
192321
192416
192517
192626
192727
192826
192930
193033
193129
193232
193331
193425
193532
193635
193727
193843
193929
194033
194144
194246
194341
194458
194554
194649
194756
194864
194949
195061
195168
195259
195368
195472
195584
195675
195790
195884
195987
1960105
196173
1962109
1963117
1964107
1965118
1966156
1967109
1968112
1969118
1970123
1971118
1972138
1973116
1974141
1975128
1976142
1977135
1978153
1979179
1980136
1981169
1982173
1983152
1984164
1985194
1986188
1987175
1988168
1989165
1990157
1991144
1992194
1993177
1994200
1995259
1996156
1997184
1998205
1999246
2000206
2001208
2002182
2003209
2004218
2005177
2006215
2007230
2008213
2009207
2010213
2011194
2012200
2013159
2014190
2015175
2016167
2017178
2018188
2019157
2020152
2021163
2022140
2023159
2024108

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 122 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Carlos Mendieta, b. 1873Andrés Mendieta, b. 1945Ana Mendieta, b. 1948Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, b. 1956Héctor Martínez Mendieta, b. 1967Gaizka Mendieta, b. 1974Diego Mendieta, b. 1980David Mendieta, b. 1988Emilia Mendieta, b. 1988Keity Mendieta, b. 1990

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Mendieta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202413K#340
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—13K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—12K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.6K#7,209
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.4K#7,294
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.3K#1,566
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.3K#1,566
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.1K#9,690
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—676#554
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—579#562
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—509#16,838
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995259—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 2026-09-03 data build · 154 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mendieta?
We estimate roughly 77 thousand people bear Mendieta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Mendieta have the most bearers?
We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Mendieta in Mexico, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mendieta.
Where is Mendieta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mendieta is densest in Nicaragua — about 1 in 811 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mendieta compared with other names?
In Mexico, Mendieta is the 594th most common surname of 163,179 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Mendieta mean?
Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mendieta, from mendi ‘mountain’ + the plural suffix -eta.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Mendieta” — the 594th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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