Mencia

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mencia is a surname, most frequently recorded in Honduras. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras1 in 1.5K◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 3.7K
  • ARArgentina1 in 20K

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

≈5.0K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
148 ●

36K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K ◐

Argentina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mencía in SV El Salvador, BO Bolivia.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mencia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HN Honduras#1639,6569.5K rec.——Mencia29
PY Paraguay#2775,8293.4K rec.——Mencia23
AR Argentina—2,2428.1K rec.1 in 20K2.2KMencia46
ES Spain—1,8982.6K rec.1 in 26K3.3KMencia83
VE Venezuela—1,8211.8K rec.——Mencia13
PE Peru—1,4312.5K rec.——Mencia26
US United States—7405.8K rec.1 in 450K1KMencia148
MX Mexico—516485 rec.—5Mencia30
DO Dominican Republic#366458375 rec.——Mencia25
CL Chile—37948 rec.—1Mencia12
BR Brazil—108100 rec.1 in 2M108Mencia27
GB United Kingdom—4487 rec.——Mencia10

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

Languages●

  • Spanish43K84%
  • English3.5K7%
  • Catalan1.9K4%
  • Portuguese5421%
  • 3031%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish43,20884%
English3,4637%
Catalan1,8984%
Portuguese5421%
3031%

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Mencia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname6.1K records spelled Mencia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, Paraguay

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Mencía, Mencïa, Mençia

  • a separate surname376 records spelled Mencia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Mencía, Mência, Menciá

  • Swahili surname205 records spelled Mencia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Mencía

  • Arabic surname96 records spelled Mencia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Spain

    Also written Mência, Mencía

  • Indonesian surname70 records spelled Mencia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Mencía

  • Italian surname53 records spelled Mencia2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Paraguay

    Also written Mencía

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Juan José Mencía, b. 1923Carlos Mencia, b. 1967Dennis Mencia, b. 1983Gustavo Mencia, b. 1988Amaurys Valle, b. 1990Josef Martínez, b. 1993Yoanki Mencía, b. 1997Christian Mencía, b. 1997Lucas Pablo Mencia, b. 2006

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 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Mencia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.3K#1,229
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#683
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.2K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.9K#2,526
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#2,525
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#24,912
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010740#31,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000425#47,026
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024300#452
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—108#59,814
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202220—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—20#124,180

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mencia?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Mencia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Mencia have the most bearers?
Mencia is most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is most often spelled mencia.
How common is Mencia compared with other names?
In Honduras, Mencia is the 163rd most common surname of 29,437 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mencia” — the 163rd most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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