The Mensah surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,209 people carried this name — #7,863 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 69,900 people counted. That is up 95% from 2,153 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 375 people named Mensah live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
115 people named Mensah live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 91 people named Mensah.
Most of them — 81 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Paris.
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
219 people named Mensah are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Mensah in American newspapers,
1876–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 126 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mensah,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thomas Mensah 1932–2020 · judge -
Thomas Mensah 1950–2024 · scientist -
Peter Mensah 1959– · actor -
Margaret Mensah-Williams 1961– · politician -
Joseph Kwasi Mensah 1962– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 140 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mensah.
- Mennel 215 · U.S. census
- Mennella 736 · U.S. census
- Menon 2,938 · U.S. census
- Menotti 283 · U.S. census
- Menozzi 125 · U.S. census
- Mens 142 · U.S. census
- Mensch 1,406 · U.S. census
- Menta 502 · U.S. census
- Mentel 457 · U.S. census
- Mention 334 · U.S. census
- Mentz 833 · U.S. census
- Mentzer 3,410 · U.S. census
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