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
Menka Political Affiliation
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Menka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Menka (Arabic: مينكا, Bengali: মেনকা, Hindi: मेनका, Marathi: मेनका, Oriya: େମନକା, Russian: Менька, Tibetan: མི་ན'ཀ་) occurs more in Ghana more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant: Mënka. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Menka? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 215,983rd most commonly occurring surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,833,533 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 62 percent of Menka reside; 59 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Menka is also the 20,944th most frequent forename globally, held by 43,024 people.
The last name Menka is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is borne by 1,108 people, or 1 in 24,387. Beside Ghana this last name exists in 30 countries. It is also found in India, where 23 percent live and Poland, where 4 percent live.
Menka Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Menka has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Menka surname 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 with the Republican Party than the national average, with 81.82% 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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