# Menon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/menon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Malayalam |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,938 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,837 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 105,087 people |
| Change since 2000 | +81% (1,624 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam മേനോൻ (mēnōṉ).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Menon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 5.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 91% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Menon in Brazil, the United States and India.

## People named Menon

- Aldrovani Menon, Brazilian association football player
- Anna Menon, American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission
- Sandhya Menon, American writer from India
- Luiz Cláudio Menon, Brazilian basketball player

## Similar surnames

Manion, Meinen, Meenan, Memon, Munyon, Monahan, Moynihan, Mannino, Mannion, Momin, Mooneyham, Manahan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.