The Menon surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,938 people carried this name — #10,837 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 100,000 people counted. That is up 81% from 1,624 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Menon surname
Borrowed from Malayalam മേനോൻ (mēnōṉ).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Menon» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 353 people named Menon.
29 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 39 départements, most often Loir-et-Cher.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 288 people named Menon 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
80 people named Menon live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 the Nordic population registers
70 people named Menon 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
Menon in American newspapers,
1907–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,003 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Menon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ambat Sivarama Menon 1870–1938 · politician -
Chinmayananda Saraswati 1916–1993 · guru -
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon 1928–2016 · physicist -
Bhaskar Menon 1934–2021 · record producer -
E. P. Menon 1936– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 90 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Menon.
- Menin 146 · U.S. census
- Menis 181 · U.S. census
- Menn 500 · U.S. census
- Menne 1,051 · U.S. census
- Mennel 215 · U.S. census
- Mennella 736 · U.S. census
- Menotti 283 · U.S. census
- Menozzi 125 · U.S. census
- Mens 142 · U.S. census
- Mensah 4,209 · U.S. census
- Mensch 1,406 · U.S. census
- Menta 502 · U.S. census
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