Mene Surname
Approximately 18,439 people bear this surname
Mene Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 4,794 | 1:36,951 | 2,985 |
| India | 3,430 | 1:223,634 | 13,217 |
| South Africa | 3,428 | 1:15,804 | 1,997 |
| Indonesia | 1,343 | 1:98,473 | 10,198 |
| Cameroon | 729 | 1:28,490 | 3,860 |
| DR Congo | 684 | 1:108,011 | 11,961 |
| Ivory Coast | 629 | 1:36,679 | 2,423 |
| Argentina | 526 | 1:81,261 | 6,877 |
| Mauritania | 391 | 1:10,473 | 1,076 |
| France | 390 | 1:170,315 | 26,499 |
| Spain | 298 | 1:156,886 | 11,448 |
| Israel | 224 | 1:38,204 | 5,249 |
| Italy | 204 | 1:299,788 | 37,710 |
| Haiti | 154 | 1:69,376 | 3,807 |
| United States | 144 | 1:2,517,076 | 153,460 |
| Brazil | 121 | 1:1,769,209 | 57,430 |
| Papua New Guinea | 101 | 1:80,730 | 10,659 |
| Tanzania | 93 | 1:569,265 | 36,354 |
| Albania | 69 | 1:42,233 | 5,855 |
| Iran | 62 | 1:1,238,428 | 52,776 |
| Philippines | 59 | 1:1,715,902 | 111,316 |
| Lesotho | 53 | 1:38,350 | 6,671 |
| Australia | 53 | 1:509,353 | 38,491 |
| New Caledonia | 52 | 1:5,312 | 1,081 |
| England | 42 | 1:1,326,620 | 59,571 |
| Zimbabwe | 40 | 1:385,956 | 35,257 |
| Ukraine | 31 | 1:1,468,474 | 118,175 |
| Uganda | 29 | 1:1,346,182 | 51,611 |
| Ethiopia | 25 | 1:3,901,850 | 10,182 |
| Northern Cyprus | 25 | 1:12,760 | 3,292 |
| Greece | 21 | 1:527,609 | 66,013 |
| Liberia | 17 | 1:259,326 | 15,766 |
| Kosovo | 15 | 1:124,125 | 6,042 |
| New Zealand | 14 | 1:323,452 | 26,435 |
| Colombia | 12 | 1:3,981,173 | 16,511 |
| Germany | 12 | 1:6,708,788 | 223,026 |
| Taiwan | 11 | 1:2,131,341 | 13,802 |
| Venezuela | 11 | 1:2,745,825 | 29,869 |
| Congo | 10 | 1:498,910 | 11,250 |
| Solomon Islands | 7 | 1:82,861 | 15,196 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Turkey | 7 | 1:11,117,346 | 139,182 |
| Uruguay | 6 | 1:571,960 | 26,877 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 2 | 1:88,712 | 2,936 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:1,568,416 | 19,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 38 | 1:1,321,544 | 72,820 |
The alternate forms: Mené (26), Menè (8), Mêne (5), Mène (3), Méne (2) & Méné (6) are calculated separately.
Mene (4,437) may also be a first name.
Mene Demographics
Mene Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Mene Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mene Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mene (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻦ, Hindi: मेने, Marathi: मेणे, Oriya: େମେନ) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Mené, Menè, Mêne, Mène, Méne or Méné. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mene? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mene is the 29,098th most widely held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 395,225 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 58 percent of Mene live; 31 percent live in West Africa and 28 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mene is also the 103,450th most commonly used forename internationally, held by 4,437 people.
The surname Mene is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 4,794 people, or 1 in 36,951. In Nigeria Mene is most common in: Delta, where 66 percent live, Rivers, where 20 percent live and Edo, where 4 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name occurs in 76 countries. It is also found in India, where 19 percent live and South Africa, where 19 percent live.
Mene Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Mene has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 379 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 840 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Mene Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Mene surname are 17.6% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 70.83% being registered with the party.
The amount Mene earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 53.15% more than the national average, earning €45,991 per year; in South Africa they earn 41.81% less than the national average, earning R 138,276 per year; in Colombia they earn 15.1% more than the national average, earning $26,129,500 COP per year and in United States they earn 3.26% more than the national average, earning $44,554 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mene Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mene in the Hindi language | ||
| मेने | mene | - |
| Mene in the Oriya language | ||
| େମେନ | emena | 94.12 |
| େମେଣ | emena | 5.88 |
| Mene in the Marathi language | ||
| मेणे | mene | 54.18 |
| मेने | mene | 44.99 |
| मेञे | mene | 0.66 |
| मोेने | moene | 0.04 |
| मेणे़ | mene | 0.04 |
| Mene in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻦ | mn | 42.2 |
| ﻣﻨﻪ | mnh | 40.32 |
| ﺍﻣﻦ | amn | 9.41 |
| ﺃﻣﻦ | amn | 3.23 |
| ﻣﻨﺎ | mna | 1.34 |
| ﺍﻣﻨﻪ | amnh | 0.81 |
| ﺁﻣﻨﺔ | amnt | 0.54 |
| ﻣﻨﺔ | mnt | 0.54 |
| ﻣﻨﻰ | mny | 0.54 |
| ﺍﻣﻨﺎ | amna | 0.27 |
| ﻣﻴﻦ | myn | 0.27 |
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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 Mene
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