Medican Surname

3,100,440th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 40 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Medican Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Medican Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa291:1,868,19787,346
United States101:36,245,893832,629
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Medican Last Name Facts

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

The surname Medican is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Medican? popularity and diffusion

The last name Medican is the 3,100,440th most frequent family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 73 percent of Medican reside; 73 percent reside in Southern Africa and 73 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is carried by 29 people, or 1 in 1,868,197. In South Africa Medican is primarily concentrated in: Free State, where 55 percent reside, Northern Cape, where 41 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 3 percent reside. Excluding South Africa this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 25 percent reside and Pakistan, where 3 percent reside.

Medican Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Medican has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Medican last name grew 1,000 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Medican Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Medican earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 43.37% less than the national average, earning R 134,580 per year and in United States they earn 8.12% less than the national average, earning $39,646 USD per year.

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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 Medican
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