Messka Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Messka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 138 | 1:29,673 | 2,470 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Messka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Messka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Messka (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺴﻜﻪ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Messka click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Messka? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,504,764th most commonly used surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 52,428,388 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Messka live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Messka is most commonly used in Mauritania, where it is carried by 138 people, or 1 in 29,673. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Trarza Region, where 57 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 9 percent are found and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 9 percent are found. Besides Mauritania this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Messka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Messka in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺴﻜﻪ | mskh | 76.47 |
| ﻣﺴﻚ | msk | 23.53 |
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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 Messka
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