The Mena surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 19,522 people carried this name — #1,832 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,100 people counted. That is up 37% from 14,299 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 15,671 people named Mena live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
403 people named Mena live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 231 people named Mena.
90 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
74 people named Mena is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Mena in American newspapers,
1882–1934.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 182,759 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mena,
with a public archive behind them.
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Tomás Antonio de San Pedro de Alcántara Mena y Mesa 1802–1868 · physician -
Juan Cancio Mena 1834–1916 · writer -
Próspero Mena 1862– · lawyer -
Edmundo S. Mena 1899–1973 · lawyer -
Luis Mena 1900–1928 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 195 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mena.
- Meloni 698 · U.S. census
- Melot 236 · U.S. census
- Melotte 180 · U.S. census
- Meltz 419 · U.S. census
- Meme 231 · U.S. census
- Men 1,245 · U.S. census
- Menard 11,543 · U.S. census
- Mencarelli 128 · U.S. census
- Menconi 415 · U.S. census
- Mendel 2,642 · U.S. census
- Mendes 10,162 · U.S. census
- Mendez 161,717 · U.S. census
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