Menca Surname
Approximately 197 people bear this surname
Menca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 109 | 1:1,963,985 | 62,590 |
| India | 39 | 1:19,668,343 | 291,059 |
| Spain | 13 | 1:3,596,310 | 69,669 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Latvia | 3 | 1:683,349 | 34,074 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
The alternate forms: Mença (5) are calculated separately.
Menca (125) may also be a first name.
Menca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menca Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Menca (Marathi: मेनका) is found in Brazil more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Mença. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Menca? popularity and diffusion
The last name Menca is the 1,198,640th most widely held family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 36,992,619 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 63 percent of Menca live; 59 percent live in South America and 55 percent live in Luso-South America. Menca is also the 832,731st most commonly occurring forename throughout the world It is held by 125 people.
This last name is most widely held in Brazil, where it is borne by 109 people, or 1 in 1,963,985. In Brazil it is primarily found in: Rio Grande do Sul, where 85 percent reside, Paraná, where 13 percent reside and Mato Grosso, where 1 percent reside. Outside of Brazil this last name exists in 19 countries. It is also common in India, where 20 percent reside and Spain, where 7 percent reside.
Menca Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Menca has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Menca last name declined 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menca Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menca in the Marathi language | ||
| मेनका | menaka | - |
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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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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- 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 Menca
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