Meien Surname
Approximately 133 people bear this surname
Meien Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 125 | 1:1,022,754 | 20,291 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Meien (174) may also be a first name.
Meien Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meien Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meien is most common in Japan. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meien? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meien is the 1,551,568th most commonly used surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 54,793,578 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 94 percent of Meien reside; 94 percent reside in East Asia and 94 percent reside in Nippono-Asia. It is also the 692,220th most widely held given name worldwide, borne by 174 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Japan, where it is borne by 125 people, or 1 in 1,022,754. In Japan it is most common in: Hokkaido Prefecture, where 54 percent live, Toyama Prefecture, where 26 percent live and Ishikawa Prefecture, where 17 percent live. Apart from Japan Meien is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 3 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Meien Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Meien has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname declined 57 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
- 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 Meien
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