Lemeya Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Lemeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Lemeya (18) may also be a first name.
Lemeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lemeya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻤﻴﻪ) is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemeya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,612,213th most widespread surname globally, borne by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. The last name Lemeya is primarily found in Africa, where 91 percent of Lemeya reside; 84 percent reside in Southern Africa and 84 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Lemeya is also the 2,608,198th most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 18 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is carried by 105 people, or 1 in 163,039. Beside Malawi this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent are found and Tanzania, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lemeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lemeya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻤﻴﻪ | lmyh | 66.67 |
| ﻟﻤﻴﺔ | lmyt | 22.22 |
| ﻟﻤﻲ | lmy | 11.11 |
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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 Lemeya
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