Find out how popular the last name Mendietta is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Mendietta.

Mendietta, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Mendietta surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Mendietta in America

Mendietta is the 99845th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Mendietta surname appeared 181 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Mendietta.

We can also compare 2010 data for Mendietta to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Mendietta

The surname Mendietta originated in the Basque region of northern Spain and southern France. It is a locational name derived from the Basque words "mendi" meaning mountain and "eta" meaning and, coming together to form the topographic name Mendietta, meaning "mountain and". This suggests the name likely originated as a descriptive identifier for someone who lived near a particular mountain or mountainous area.

The earliest known record of the Mendietta name dates back to the 11th century in the medieval Basque country. A document from 1065 mentions a landowner named Petrus de Mendietta in the village of Sara, in what is now the northern Basque region of France. This indicates the name was already an established surname in that area by the mid-11th century.

In the 13th century, the name appears in various historical records from the Kingdom of Navarre, such as a 1275 document mentioning a nobleman named Sancho Mendietta who held lands near the town of Pamplona. This suggests the name had spread from its original Basque homeland into the neighboring Navarrese region by that time.

One of the earliest known bearers of the Mendietta name was Juan Mendietta, a Basque soldier who fought in the Reconquista campaigns against the Moors in southern Spain in the late 15th century, under the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. He was born around 1460 in the town of Hernani, Gipuzkoa.

Another notable figure was Pedro Mendietta, a 16th century Spanish Catholic missionary and one of the first Jesuits to travel to Mexico after the Spanish conquest. Born in 1499 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, he arrived in Mexico in 1572 and spent many years evangelizing and establishing missions among the indigenous populations before his death around 1580.

In the artistic realm, Juan Bautista Mendietta was a Baroque painter active in 17th century Madrid. Born in 1628 in the town of Allo, Navarre, he became a respected portraitist and religious painter, working for patrons such as the Spanish monarchy and the Catholic Church until his death in 1688.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Mendietta

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Mendietta.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Mendietta was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Mendietta has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Mendietta was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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