Menza Surname
Approximately 12,268 people bear this surname
Menza Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 7,028 | 1:6,571 | 883 |
| Ethiopia | 1,932 | 1:50,490 | 5,344 |
| Colombia | 1,273 | 1:37,529 | 2,162 |
| Italy | 539 | 1:113,463 | 18,877 |
| United States | 484 | 1:748,882 | 58,523 |
| Mauritania | 300 | 1:13,650 | 1,303 |
| Argentina | 180 | 1:237,463 | 19,337 |
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Ecuador | 83 | 1:191,637 | 7,732 |
| Tanzania | 78 | 1:678,739 | 39,598 |
| Uruguay | 64 | 1:53,621 | 5,918 |
| Germany | 18 | 1:4,472,526 | 177,866 |
| Brazil | 18 | 1:11,893,018 | 236,958 |
| Czechia | 13 | 1:817,959 | 70,223 |
| Zimbabwe | 13 | 1:1,187,557 | 68,998 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
The alternate forms: Menzà (4), Meñza (1) & Menzá (1) are calculated separately.
Menza (6,897) may also be a first name.
Menza Demographics
Menza Political Affiliation
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Menza Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menza Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Menza (Arabic: مينزا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻨﺰ, Russian: Менза) is found most frequently in Kenya. It can be rendered as a variant: Menzà, Meñza or Menzá. For other possible spellings of Menza click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Menza? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 42,467th most frequent surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 594,029 people. Menza occurs predominantly in Africa, where 78 percent of Menza live; 74 percent live in East Africa and 56 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Menza is also the 78,354th most frequently used forename at a global level. It is borne by 6,897 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is held by 7,028 people, or 1 in 6,571. In Kenya Menza is most numerous in: Kilifi County, where 64 percent are found, Kwale County, where 13 percent are found and Mombasa County, where 13 percent are found. Apart from Kenya this last name occurs in 44 countries. It also occurs in Ethiopia, where 16 percent are found and Colombia, where 10 percent are found.
Menza Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Menza has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Menza surname increased 9,680 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Menza Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Christian (91%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Menza last name are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 66.67% registered with the political party.
The amount Menza earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 40.57% less than the national average, earning €17,846 per year; in South Africa they earn 49.87% less than the national average, earning R 119,136 per year; in Colombia they earn 13.85% less than the national average, earning $19,558,800 COP per year; in United States they earn 19.73% more than the national average, earning $51,662 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.68% less than the national average, earning $48,351 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Menza Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Menza in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻨﺰ | mnz | 51.25 |
| ﻣﻨﺰﻩ | mnzh | 37.5 |
| ﻣﻨﺰﺍ | mnza | 11.25 |
| Menza in the Russian language | ||
| Менза | menza | - |
| Menza in the Arabic language | ||
| مينزا | mynza | - |
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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 Menza
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