Meeya Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Meeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 79 | 1:9,709,688 | 189,874 |
| Uganda | 56 | 1:697,130 | 35,026 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
Meeya (153) may also be a first name.
Meeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meeya (Hindi: मीया) occurs more in India more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meeya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meeya is the 1,465,390th most commonly held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 61 percent of Meeya reside; 57 percent reside in South Asia and 55 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 743,570th most widely held first name in the world, held by 153 people.
Meeya is most widespread in India, where it is held by 79 people, or 1 in 9,709,688. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Telangana, where 34 percent reside, Bihar, where 30 percent reside and Andhra Pradesh, where 11 percent reside. Apart from India this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 39 percent reside and Thailand, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meeya in the Hindi language | ||
| मीया | miya | 50 |
| मिय | miya | 50 |
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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 Meeya
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