Menka Surname
Approximately 1,901 people bear this surname
Menka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,108 | 1:24,387 | 2,946 |
| India | 432 | 1:1,775,614 | 63,364 |
| Poland | 70 | 1:542,982 | 51,331 |
| Cameroon | 58 | 1:358,087 | 31,912 |
| Japan | 55 | 1:2,324,442 | 29,670 |
| United States | 40 | 1:9,061,473 | 385,835 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Estonia | 23 | 1:57,470 | 10,794 |
| Albania | 18 | 1:161,892 | 12,234 |
| Russia | 14 | 1:10,294,504 | 334,277 |
| Bulgaria | 9 | 1:775,434 | 29,551 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| North Macedonia | 5 | 1:420,294 | 19,032 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 45 | 1:1,115,971 | 64,142 |
The alternate forms: Mënka (30) are calculated separately.
Menka (43,024) may also be a first name.
Menka Demographics
Average Menka Salary in
United States
$66,589 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Menka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Menka (Arabic: مينكا, Bengali: মেনকা, Hindi: मेनका, Marathi: मेनका, Oriya: େମନକା, Russian: Менька, Tibetan: མི་ན'ཀ་) is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Mënka. Click here for other potential spellings of Menka.
How Common Is The Last Name Menka? popularity and diffusion
The last name Menka is the 215,983rd most commonly occurring last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 3,833,533 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 62 percent of Menka are found; 59 percent are found in West Africa and 59 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Menka is also the 20,944th most numerous first name throughout the world It is held by 43,024 people.
The last name Menka is most numerous in Ghana, where it is held by 1,108 people, or 1 in 24,387. Not including Ghana Menka occurs in 30 countries. It also occurs in India, where 23 percent reside and Poland, where 4 percent reside.
Menka Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Menka has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Menka last name declined 11 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Menka Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Menka last name are 35.05% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 81.82% being registered to vote for the political party.
Menka earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 54.32% more than the national average, earning $66,589 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menka in the Tibetan language | ||
| མི་ན'ཀ་ | minaka | - |
| Menka in the Bengali language | ||
| মেনকা | menaka | - |
| Menka in the Hindi language | ||
| मेनका | menaka | 99.65 |
| मेंका | menka | 0.14 |
| मेन्का | menka | 0.09 |
| मेंअका | memaka | 0.04 |
| मॆनका | menaka | 0.02 |
| मेनिका | menika | 0.02 |
| ़मेनका | menaka | 0.01 |
| Menka in the Marathi language | ||
| मेनका | menaka | 95.41 |
| मेणका | menaka | 3.65 |
| मेन्का | menka | 0.06 |
| मेनाक | menaka | 0.06 |
| मेनक | menaka | 0.06 |
| Menka in the Oriya language | ||
| େମନକା | emanaka | 24.08 |
| େଦଇ | eda'i | 10.47 |
| ମଳିକ | malika | 10.47 |
| େବୱା | ebawa | 8.9 |
| େବେହରା | ebehara | 7.85 |
| ନାୟକ | nayaka | 7.33 |
| େଜନା | ejana | 5.76 |
| େସଠୀ | esathi | 5.76 |
| େଯନା | eyana | 5.76 |
| େଦଈ | eda'i | 4.19 |
| େମନ୍କା | emanka | 4.19 |
| ନାଏକ | na'eka | 3.14 |
| ନାଇକ | na'ika | 0.52 |
| Menka in the Russian language | ||
| Менька | menka | - |
| Menka in the Arabic language | ||
| مينكا | mynka | - |
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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 Menka
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