Maintain Surname

1,504,764th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 139 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Lithuania

Maintain Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Maintain Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1311:1,352,23553,045
Lithuania41:758,64725,175
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:5,579,854232,921

Maintain (58) may also be a first name.

Maintain Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Maintain Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Maintain occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Maintain? popularity and diffusion

Maintain is the 1,504,764th most widespread family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 52,428,388 people. The last name Maintain occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Maintain live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Maintain is also the 1,295,729th most prevalent forename worldwide. It is borne by 58 people.

The surname Maintain is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 131 people, or 1 in 1,352,235. In Nigeria Maintain is most frequent in: Borno, where 97 percent are found, Anambra, where 1 percent are found and Bayelsa, where 1 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Lithuania, where 3 percent are found and New Zealand, where 1 percent are found.

Maintain Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Maintain has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Maintain surname contracted 89 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Maintain Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Nigeria.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Maintain
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