Matchi Surname
Approximately 2,764 people bear this surname
Matchi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 2,103 | 1:4,915 | 648 |
| Cameroon | 542 | 1:38,319 | 5,130 |
| Niger | 50 | 1:383,840 | 10,800 |
| India | 49 | 1:15,654,396 | 253,566 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Matchi (1,124) may also be a first name.
Matchi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matchi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matchi occurs most in Benin. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Matchi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 158,120th most commonly occurring family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 2,636,594 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Matchi live; 78 percent live in West Africa and 76 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 237,715th most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 1,124 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Benin, where it is borne by 2,103 people, or 1 in 4,915. In Benin it is most numerous in: Donga Department, where 73 percent are found, Atakora Department, where 12 percent are found and Collines Department, where 10 percent are found. Besides Benin this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 20 percent are found and Niger, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Matchi
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