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Menno

#3,721 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Meine

Menno has been given to 1,458 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #3,721 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Menno, 2025

1 in 111,000

Menno over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Menno: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Meine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Menno means

Menno is a diminutive of Meine.

Origin, language, and formation

Menno is used in English, Dutch and West Frisian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Meine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Menno is pronounced /ˈmɛ.noː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,458 boys were recorded with the name Menno between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,210 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,985 in 2020 to #3,721 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,952 in 2015 to #3,721 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Menno?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,721
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Menno sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Menno. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mennos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Menno was born before 1989 — so the typical Menno is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,093
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Choose a decade

2000s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (201).

Is Menno rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−226
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+231
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2021 (33)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,210
1896

Spellings of Menno

Menno is not the most common spelling — Kenny is, with 24.1% against Menno's 0.68%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Menno is used

Across 1910–2025, Menno was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 88,973 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Kansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Menno has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Menno around the world

Where Menno ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1995–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1960–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Menno by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,721
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 264
Best rank ever
#1,210
1896
Peak year
2021
33 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,458
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Menno

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Menno

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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