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 most in Brazil. It can also be found as a variant: 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 commonly held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 36,992,619 people. It is predominantly found 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 used first name throughout the world, held by 125 people.
Menca is most frequent in Brazil, where it is carried by 109 people, or 1 in 1,963,985. In Brazil Menca is most numerous in: Rio Grande do Sul, where 85 percent are found, Paraná, where 13 percent are found and Mato Grosso, where 1 percent are found. Without taking into account Brazil Menca is found in 19 countries. It is also found in India, where 20 percent are found and Spain, where 7 percent are found.
Menca Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Menca has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Menca surname 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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