Mareiga Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Mareiga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 55 | 1:74,452 | 5,004 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
Mareiga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mareiga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mareiga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺎﺭﻳﻜﺎ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Mareiga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mareiga? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,530,696th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Mareiga live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The last name is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is carried by 55 people, or 1 in 74,452. In Mauritania Mareiga is mostly concentrated in: Gorgol Region, where 96 percent are found, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 2 percent are found and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 2 percent are found. Not including Mauritania it is found in one country. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mareiga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mareiga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺎﺭﻳﻜﺎ | maryka | 92.86 |
| ﻣﺮﻳﻜﺎ | mryka | 7.14 |
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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 Mareiga
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