Menno
Menno reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 3,427, and has been recorded 1,458 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,658th. About 1,100 Mennos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Menno
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,458
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 3,427th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,658th
- First recorded
- 1896
How old the living Mennos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,458 babies given the name since 1896, about 1,100 are alive — 73 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mennos
- Menno Simons (1496–1561)Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites
- Menno ter Braak (1902–1940)Dutch writer
- Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704)Dutch military engineer
- Menno Oosting (1964–1999)Dutch tennis player
- Menno Koch (born 1994)Dutch footballer
- Menno Vloon (born 1994)Dutch pole vaulter
- Menno Meyjes (born 1954)Screenwriter, producer, director
People named Menno with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Menno is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Menno is most concentrated in Indiana (12.7×), Missouri (7.9×), Pennsylvania (6.1×), Ohio (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Menno peaked:
Menno elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Menno | 346 | 436th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Menno: rank by region
In 2025, Menno was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Menno | 464 | 12 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Menno appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Menno among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Menno | 9,057 | 10,875 |
| the Netherlands girls | Menno | — | 12 |
| Finland boys | Menno | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Menno against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.