Meake Surname
Approximately 79 people bear this surname
Meake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 54 | 1:384,612 | 33,542 |
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,214,933 | 33,683 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:392,104 | 12,338 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Meake (18) may also be a first name.
Meake Demographics
Meake Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Meake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meake Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meake is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meake? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meake is the 2,121,169th most frequent surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 92,247,417 people. The surname Meake occurs predominantly in Africa, where 68 percent of Meake live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Meake is also the 2,608,198th most commonly held first name internationally, held by 18 people.
The surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 384,612. In Cameroon it is most common in: Adamawa Region, where 96 percent live and Centre Region, where 4 percent live. Barring Cameroon this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 29 percent live and Australia, where 1 percent live.
Meake Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Meake has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Meake Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is predominantly Catholic (50%) in Ireland.
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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 Meake
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