Menira Surname
Approximately 122 people bear this surname
Menira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 117 | 1:34,999 | 2,803 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Menira (184) may also be a first name.
Menira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Menira (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻨﻴﺮﺍ, Hindi: मेनिरा) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Menira? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,637,889th most numerous last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 59,733,983 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Menira live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 671,014th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 184 people.
The surname Menira is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 117 people, or 1 in 34,999. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Trarza Region, where 53 percent live, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 34 percent live and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 5 percent live. Barring Mauritania it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 2 percent live and Ethiopia, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menira in the Hindi language | ||
| मेनिरा | menira | - |
| Menira in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻨﻴﺮﺍ | mnyra | 57.89 |
| ﻣﻨﻴﺮﻩ | mnyrh | 31.58 |
| ﻣﻨﻴﺮ | mnyr | 7.89 |
| ﻣﻮﻧﻴﺮﺓ | mwnyrt | 2.63 |
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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 Menira
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