Marakai Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Marakai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 51 | 1:159,877 | 22,106 |
| French Polynesia | 49 | 1:5,731 | 1,283 |
| Cameroon | 22 | 1:944,049 | 61,779 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Marakai (121) may also be a first name.
Marakai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Marakai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Marakai is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Marakai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Marakai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,544,715th most widespread family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. The last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 75 percent of Marakai reside; 75 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 38 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Marakai is also the 848,089th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 121 people.
The surname Marakai is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 51 people, or 1 in 159,877. In Papua New Guinea Marakai is mostly concentrated in: Madang, where 25 percent live, Gulf, where 20 percent live and Morobe, where 20 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also found in French Polynesia, where 37 percent live and Cameroon, where 16 percent live.
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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 Marakai
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