Menges Surname
Approximately 7,735 people bear this surname
Menges Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4,507 | 1:17,862 | 2,339 |
| United States | 2,285 | 1:158,625 | 16,173 |
| France | 428 | 1:155,193 | 24,084 |
| Netherlands | 110 | 1:153,520 | 22,896 |
| Austria | 61 | 1:139,597 | 18,914 |
| Canada | 55 | 1:669,920 | 54,285 |
| Brazil | 52 | 1:4,116,814 | 111,429 |
| South Africa | 41 | 1:1,321,407 | 72,211 |
| England | 35 | 1:1,591,945 | 67,242 |
| Croatia | 22 | 1:192,209 | 23,417 |
| Argentina | 21 | 1:2,035,401 | 100,871 |
| New Caledonia | 16 | 1:17,264 | 4,719 |
| Thailand | 12 | 1:5,886,529 | 390,733 |
| Switzerland | 11 | 1:746,629 | 49,719 |
| Hungary | 8 | 1:1,227,035 | 53,030 |
| Chile | 7 | 1:2,516,639 | 33,195 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 560 | 1:89,676 | 9,259 |
The alternate forms: Mengeş (1,156), Mengeš (6) & Mengès (3) are calculated separately.
Menges (55) may also be a first name.
Menges Demographics
Average Menges Salary in
United States
$46,960 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Menges Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menges Come From? nationality or country of origin
Menges (Hindi: मेंगेश, Russian: Менгес) is most common in Germany. It may also be found as a variant: Mengeş, Mengeš or Mengès. For other possible spellings of Menges click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Menges? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 64,659th most commonly used family name on earth, held by around 1 in 942,152 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 67 percent of Menges are found; 66 percent are found in Western Europe and 61 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Menges is also the 1,336,256th most frequently held forename on earth, borne by 55 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 4,507 people, or 1 in 17,862. In Germany Menges is most prevalent in: Hesse, where 29 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 20 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 18 percent live. Excluding Germany this last name exists in 49 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 30 percent live and France, where 6 percent live.
Menges Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Menges has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Menges surname expanded 408 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Menges Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Menges last name are 20.59% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 67.36% being registered with the party.
The amount Menges earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 70.6% more than the national average, earning R 405,408 per year; in United States they earn 8.83% more than the national average, earning $46,960 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.71% less than the national average, earning $49,330 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menges Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menges in the Hindi language | ||
| मेंगेश | mengesa | - |
| Menges in the Russian language | ||
| Менгес | menges | - |
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Menges Reference & Research
Menges FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Menges
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis