Meechen Surname
Approximately 14 people bear this surname
Meechen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | 6 | 1:652,043 | 10,051 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 10 | 1:374,322 | 10,959 |
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Meechen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meechen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meechen is carried by more people in Panama than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Meechen? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meechen is the 5,213,395th most common last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 520,538,994 people. The last name Meechen occurs mostly in The Americas, where 50 percent of Meechen reside; 43 percent reside in Central America and 43 percent reside in Hispano-Central America.
The last name Meechen is most frequently occurring in Panama, where it is carried by 6 people, or 1 in 652,043. In Panama it is most frequent in: Coclé Province, where 83 percent reside and Chiriquí Province, where 17 percent reside. Without taking into account Panama it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 36 percent reside and Germany, where 7 percent reside.
Meechen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Meechen has changed over time. In Scotland the number of people bearing the Meechen last name contracted 90 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Meechen
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