The MENA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,299	2317	0.005	53
United States (1880 census)	61	44376	0	1
Change since 1880	+14238	+42059	+N/A	+52
Other Countries
Australia	60	21849	0	4
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MENA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,908	1067	0.012	115
Texas	2,222	1424	0.011	107
Florida	2,115	1250	0.013	132
New York	1,234	1900	0.007	65
Illinois	719	2281	0.006	58
Top States for MENA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	2,115	1250	0.013	132
California	3,908	1067	0.012	115
Texas	2,222	1424	0.011	107
Arizona	500	1564	0.010	97
Nevada	161	1876	0.008	81

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MENA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MENA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MENA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MENA by picking someone at random in Florida than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MENA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MENA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MENA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MENA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	129	0.9
Asian/Pacific	103	0.72
Mixed Race	100	0.7
Native American/Alaskan	33	0.23
White (Hispanic)	12,750	89.17
White (Caucasian)	1,184	8.28

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MENA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MENA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MENA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.