Menas: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Mena and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Search old registers for Menas and you will soon meet Mena too. At root, the name means “From Mena”.

The extra “s” in Menas is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include De Mena. About 218 people in the United States were recorded as Menas in 2010, placing it 85,659 on the national list. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.

Want more than a summary? See the Menas family name pack.