Megeme Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Megeme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 27 | 1:769,225 | 54,005 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Megeme (214) may also be a first name.
Megeme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Megeme Come From? nationality or country of origin
Megeme (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺠﻢ) is most common in Cameroon. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Megeme.
How Common Is The Last Name Megeme? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,843,861st most prevalent last name in the world, held by around 1 in 155,054,168 people. Megeme occurs mostly in Africa, where 87 percent of Megeme live; 87 percent live in West Africa and 40 percent live in Chadic Africa. Megeme is also the 617,781st most commonly occurring forename globally. It is borne by 214 people.
The surname Megeme is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 769,225. In Cameroon Megeme is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 96 percent live and North Region, where 4 percent live. Apart from Cameroon this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 30 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Megeme Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Megeme in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺠﻢ | mjm | - |
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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 Megeme
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