Mendo

Boy · Germanic, through Portuguese

Mendo

Say it: MEN-doo

Meaning

A Portuguese and Galician short form of Hermenegildo, through medieval Menendo.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

Used by

Portuguese Spanish

The family of the name

Other spellings: Mem

Famous bearers

Mem de Sá, governor-general of Brazil

Names worth a look

HermenegildBoyFrom Germanic ermen 'whole, great' and gild 'payment, sacrifice'.Early Medieval · forgotten

GonçaloBoyPortuguese form of Gonzalo, from Visigothic Gundisalvus, with Germanic gunþ 'battle' as its first element.Middle Ages

BermudoBoyFrom Visigothic Veremundus; the second element is Germanic mund 'protection', the first is uncertain.Early Medieval · forgotten

SueroBoyUncertain; from medieval Latin Suarius, perhaps of Germanic origin.Middle Ages · forgotten

MunioBoyUncertain; from medieval Latin Munio, of debated origin.Early Medieval · forgotten

OsorioBoyUncertain; perhaps Germanic.Middle Ages · forgotten

MandyGirlA pet form of Amanda, from Latin amanda 'she who must be loved'.Modern · peak 1978

MindyGirlA pet form of Melinda, an 18th-century coinage from Greek meli 'honey' and the suffix -inda.Modern · peak 1979 · forgotten

Where this comes from

Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters

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