Denka Surname

207,954th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,990 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ethiopia
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Denka Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Denka Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ethiopia1,2881:75,7357,282
Poland2751:138,21420,006
Bhutan1431:4,308249
United States761:4,769,196247,034
Japan451:2,840,98432,386
Indonesia321:4,132,787209,071
India291:26,450,530346,896
Russia241:6,005,127248,576
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
Slovakia121:444,70454,815
Cameroon71:2,967,010123,373
South Africa61:9,029,617189,736
Yemen41:6,606,32425,896
Ukraine41:11,380,674331,818
Papua New Guinea31:2,717,906153,458
Tanzania21:26,470,806111,653
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
Niger21:9,596,00886,358
Belarus21:4,750,530139,516
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Denka (10,050) may also be a first name.

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Denkha913,859/
Denkai9192/
Dengka9184/
Denkah9110/
Deunka919/
Denkaa915/
Denkay914/
Dencka912/
Deenka911/
Daenka911/
Denkoa911/
Dienka911/
Dnka891/
Denkash8337/
Dengkay8321/
Dengkai836/
Denkaat833/
Denkach832/
Denkacz832/
Dienkha831/
Denkhau831/
Denkhah831/
Dhenkah831/
Daenkai831/
Dengkea830/
Dinka808,519/
Denke804,494/
Denko801,865/
Dynka80669/
Denki80309/
Denca8031/
Denkó8010/
Dýnka805/
Dnkha804/
Denky804/
Dhnka801/
Denké801/
Denkhaus77396/
Daengkha7769/
Ddenkaad775/
Dienkhah771/
Dhenki731,917/
Denkyi731,760/
Dehnke73797/
Dinkha73472/
Duenko73257/
Duenke73156/
Doenko73121/
Dienko7369/
Dengke7356/
Dingka7352/
Denkie7351/
Dencas7348/
Denkes7336/
Denkei7336/
Denkey7335/
Duenki7332/
Dencke7329/
Denkio7323/
Daenke7319/
Dinkaa7318/
Dhenke7317/
Denkop7315/
Dönkay7314/
Dinkah7311/
Dengko738/
Dinkay738/
Dyonka735/
Dhinka735/
Dhenky734/
Daenko733/
Deenko733/
Denkoz733/
Dynkha732/
Dinkai732/
Denkho732/
Dehnki731/
Dienké731/
Demnky731/
Dencki731/
Denked731/
Denket731/
Dennko731/
Denkeh731/
Dynkas731/
Dengki731/
Denkep731/
Denkeu731/
Dencay731/
Demkas731/
Deunko731/
Dinkaj731/
Dinkaz731/
Dionka730/
Denkee730/
Duenky730/
Daehnke67244/
Dehncke67121/
Dingkaa6734/
Dinkhah6733/
Dengcai6721/
Daencke679/
Dinkatt679/
Dingkau678/
Dinkaah678/
D'Encau677/
Daengko677/
Dingkay676/
Denkhou675/
Dnke675/
Dionkha672/
Dhenkey672/
Denquah672/
Dnko672/
Dnqa672/
Dynkach672/
Dehenko672/
Gydenko671/
Dhenker671/
Denncau671/
Denkesh671/
Denkiph671/
Dengkeh671/
Dengkho671/
Dengkio671/
Dienkeu671/
Dengkui671/
Denkech671/
Dinkhat671/
Dingkai671/
Dinkeas670/
Denceau670/
Doehnke670/
Demkkay670/

Denka Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Denka in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﺟﻨﻚajnk-
Denka in the Hindi language
डेनकाdenaka-
Denka in the Oriya language
େଦଂକedanka-
Denka in the Tibetan language
སྒྲོན་དཀར།drönkar45.31
སྒྲོལ་དཀར།drolkar23.44
སྒྲོན་ཀ།drönka15.63
སྒྲེང་ཀ།drengka1.56
སྒྲོན་དཀར།།drönkar1.56
སྒྲེལ་ཀ།drelka1.56
དྲེང་དཀར།drengkar1.56
སྒྲེན་དཀར།drenkar1.56
སྒྲོན་དཀར་drönkar1.56
སྒྲེན་ཀ།drenka1.56
སྒྲོན་དཀའ་drönka1.56
སྒྲེན་ཀ་drenka1.56
སྒྲོལ་ཀ།drolka1.56
Denka in the Russian language
Денькаdenka-

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