Lemech Surname
Approximately 178 people bear this surname
Lemech Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 63 | 1:2,811,790 | 89,258 |
| Papua New Guinea | 57 | 1:143,048 | 19,694 |
| Mauritania | 19 | 1:215,519 | 10,553 |
| Israel | 15 | 1:570,509 | 41,023 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Lemech (149) may also be a first name.
Lemech Demographics
Average Lemech Salary in
United States
$4,125 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lemech Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemech Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lemech (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻌﻤﺶ) is found most in Nigeria. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemech? popularity and diffusion
The surname Lemech is the 1,281,391st most common family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 40,941,269 people. The surname Lemech occurs mostly in Africa, where 47 percent of Lemech live; 46 percent live in West Africa and 35 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 754,880th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 149 people.
Lemech is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 63 people, or 1 in 2,811,790. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 56 percent are found, Akwa Ibom, where 17 percent are found and Rivers, where 13 percent are found. Beside Nigeria Lemech occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 32 percent are found and Mauritania, where 11 percent are found.
Lemech Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Lemech has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Lemech last name fell 17 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Lemech Last Name Statistics demography
Lemech earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 90.44% less than the national average, earning $4,125 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lemech Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lemech in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻌﻤﺶ | lmsh | - |
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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 Lemech
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