Mahea Surname
Approximately 154 people bear this surname
Mahea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 89 | 1:830,108 | 57,152 |
| French Polynesia | 25 | 1:11,232 | 2,339 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Northern Ireland | 6 | 1:307,506 | 12,899 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Mahea (115) may also be a first name.
Mahea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mahea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mahea (Arabic: ماهيا, Hindi: महेा, Marathi: महेर) is held by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mahea? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,409,418th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 47,321,727 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Mahea live; 58 percent live in Central Africa and 58 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mahea is also the 873,022nd most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 115 people.
This surname is most frequently held in The DR Congo, where it is held by 89 people, or 1 in 830,108. Apart from The DR Congo this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also common in French Polynesia, where 16 percent reside and India, where 5 percent reside.
Mahea Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Mahea has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Mahea last name increased 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mahea Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mahea in the Marathi language | ||
| महेर | mahera | - |
| Mahea in the Hindi language | ||
| महेा | mahea | 60 |
| माहे | mahe | 20 |
| महे'ा | mahe'a | 20 |
| Mahea in the Arabic language | ||
| ماهيا | mahya | - |
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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 Mahea
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