Menteş Surname
Approximately 11,661 people bear this surname
Menteş Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 11,374 | 1:6,842 | 940 |
| Northern Cyprus | 284 | 1:1,123 | 86 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| 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 |
The alternate forms: Mentes (1,204) are calculated separately.
Menteş (188) may also be a first name.
Menteş Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menteş Come From? nationality or country of origin
Menteş occurs in Turkey more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Mentes. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Menteş? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 44,546th most widely held last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 624,950 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 81 percent of Menteş reside; 81 percent reside in West Asia and 81 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. Menteş is also the 663,277th most widespread first name worldwide, borne by 188 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Turkey, where it is held by 11,374 people, or 1 in 6,842. In Turkey Menteş is mostly found in: Istanbul Province, where 23 percent reside, Bursa Province, where 6 percent reside and Diyarbakir Province, where 5 percent reside. Other than Turkey Menteş exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Northern Cyprus, where 2 percent reside and The Philippines, where 0 percent reside.
Menteş Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Menteş has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Menteş surname declined 86 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mentes | 94 | 1,204 | / |
| Mentec | 83 | 311 | / |
| Minteş | 83 | 297 | / |
| Mentez | 83 | 24 | / |
| Mentex | 83 | 2 | / |
| Muentes | 77 | 5,541 | / |
| Mentges | 77 | 787 | / |
| Mentesh | 77 | 295 | / |
| Mentese | 77 | 274 | / |
| Mentişe | 77 | 38 | / |
| Mentech | 77 | 14 | / |
| Mentise | 77 | 13 | / |
| Muentez | 77 | 5 | / |
| Menties | 77 | 2 | / |
| Mentess | 77 | 1 | / |
| Mentezh | 77 | 1 | / |
| Mntes | 73 | 5 | / |
| Menteshe | 71 | 62 | / |
| Menteche | 71 | 3 | / |
| Mentishe | 71 | 2 | / |
| Mentis | 67 | 1,737 | / |
| Mintiş | 67 | 74 | / |
| Mintec | 67 | 32 | / |
| Mintes | 67 | 12 | / |
| Mentiz | 67 | 6 | / |
| Mõntes | 67 | 1 | / |
| Mintez | 67 | 1 | / |
| Mentys | 67 | 1 | / |
| Möntes | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Menteş
- 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