Meniah Surname
Approximately 109 people bear this surname
Meniah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 97 | 1:398,263 | 33,998 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Meniah (45) may also be a first name.
Meniah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meniah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meniah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻨﻴﺎﻩ) is found most frequently in Algeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meniah? popularity and diffusion
Meniah is the 1,755,741st most widespread last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 66,858,219 people. Meniah is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Meniah are found; 89 percent are found in North Africa and 89 percent are found in Mahgreb. Meniah is also the 1,504,468th most widely held first name throughout the world, borne by 45 people.
This surname is most frequent in Algeria, where it is held by 97 people, or 1 in 398,263. In Algeria Meniah is mostly concentrated in: El Taref Province, where 100 percent live. Aside from Algeria it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 6 percent live and Indonesia, where 3 percent live.
Meniah Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Meniah has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Meniah surname declined 86 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meniah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meniah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻨﻴﺎﻩ | mnyah | - |
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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 Meniah
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