Denka Surname
Approximately 1,990 people bear this surname
Denka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,288 | 1:75,735 | 7,282 |
| Poland | 275 | 1:138,214 | 20,006 |
| Bhutan | 143 | 1:4,308 | 249 |
| United States | 76 | 1:4,769,196 | 247,034 |
| Japan | 45 | 1:2,840,984 | 32,386 |
| Indonesia | 32 | 1:4,132,787 | 209,071 |
| India | 29 | 1:26,450,530 | 346,896 |
| Russia | 24 | 1:6,005,127 | 248,576 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Slovakia | 12 | 1:444,704 | 54,815 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Ukraine | 4 | 1:11,380,674 | 331,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Denka (10,050) may also be a first name.
Denka Demographics
Denka Political Affiliation
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Denka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Denka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Denka (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺟﻨﻚ, Hindi: डेनका, Oriya: େଦଂକ, Russian: Денька, Tibetan: སྒྲོན་དཀར།) is more commonly found in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Denka? popularity and diffusion
Denka is the 207,954th most commonly used surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 3,662,083 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 67 percent of Denka reside; 65 percent reside in East Africa and 65 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Denka is also the 61,035th most numerous first name throughout the world. It is borne by 10,050 people.
Denka is most frequently used in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 1,288 people, or 1 in 75,735. Not including Ethiopia this last name exists in 30 countries. It also occurs in Poland, where 14 percent reside and Bhutan, where 7 percent reside.
Denka Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Denka has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 7,600 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Denka Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Denka last name are 35.66% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 88.89% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Denka earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 41.6% less than the national average, earning R 138,780 per year and in United States they earn 14.87% more than the national average, earning $49,565 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Denka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Denka in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺟﻨﻚ | ajnk | - |
| Denka in the Hindi language | ||
| डेनका | denaka | - |
| Denka in the Oriya language | ||
| େଦଂକ | edanka | - |
| Denka in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒྲོན་དཀར། | drönkar | 45.31 |
| སྒྲོལ་དཀར། | drolkar | 23.44 |
| སྒྲོན་ཀ། | drönka | 15.63 |
| སྒྲེང་ཀ། | drengka | 1.56 |
| སྒྲོན་དཀར།། | drönkar | 1.56 |
| སྒྲེལ་ཀ། | drelka | 1.56 |
| དྲེང་དཀར། | drengkar | 1.56 |
| སྒྲེན་དཀར། | drenkar | 1.56 |
| སྒྲོན་དཀར་ | drönkar | 1.56 |
| སྒྲེན་ཀ། | drenka | 1.56 |
| སྒྲོན་དཀའ་ | drönka | 1.56 |
| སྒྲེན་ཀ་ | drenka | 1.56 |
| སྒྲོལ་ཀ། | drolka | 1.56 |
| Denka in the Russian language | ||
| Денька | denka | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Denka
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