Menya Surname
Approximately 7,653 people bear this surname
Menya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 5,433 | 1:7,186 | 1,252 |
| Kenya | 836 | 1:55,239 | 5,513 |
| Cameroon | 739 | 1:28,104 | 3,815 |
| DR Congo | 205 | 1:360,388 | 31,424 |
| Tanzania | 197 | 1:268,739 | 21,270 |
| India | 55 | 1:13,946,643 | 236,652 |
| Sudan | 49 | 1:765,514 | 2,614 |
| Japan | 35 | 1:3,652,694 | 35,474 |
| United States | 32 | 1:11,326,842 | 445,236 |
| Zimbabwe | 19 | 1:812,539 | 55,590 |
| England | 16 | 1:3,482,379 | 114,324 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
Menya (1,770) may also be a first name.
Menya Demographics
Menya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Menya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Menya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻨﻴﻪ, Hindi: मेन्या, Marathi: मेन्या, Oriya: େମଁୟା) occurs most in Uganda. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Menya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Menya is the 65,250th most widespread family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 952,247 people. Menya occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Menya live; 84 percent live in East Africa and 56 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Menya is also the 181,884th most commonly occurring forename throughout the world It is held by 1,770 people.
It is most commonly held in Uganda, where it is borne by 5,433 people, or 1 in 7,186. In Uganda it is primarily found in: Abim District, where 13 percent reside, Mayuge District, where 12 percent reside and Namutumba District, where 7 percent reside. Other than Uganda this surname occurs in 20 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 11 percent reside and Cameroon, where 10 percent reside.
Menya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Menya last name are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 66.67% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Menya earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 48.84% less than the national average, earning R 121,572 per year; in United States they earn 22.09% less than the national average, earning $33,619 USD per year and in Canada they earn 64.14% less than the national average, earning $17,816 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menya in the Hindi language | ||
| मेन्या | men'ya | - |
| Menya in the Oriya language | ||
| େମଁୟା | emamya | - |
| Menya in the Marathi language | ||
| मेन्या | men'ya | 73.33 |
| मेण्या | menya | 22.22 |
| मेणे | mene | 4.44 |
| Menya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻨﻴﻪ | mnyh | 58.33 |
| ﻣﻨﻲ | mny | 25 |
| ﻣﻨﻴﺔ | mnyt | 8.33 |
| ﺍﻟﻤﻨﻴﻪ | almnyh | 8.33 |
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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 Menya
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