Meilán Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Meilán Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 17 | 1:2,750,120 | 61,567 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Meilan (1,619) are calculated separately.
Meilán Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meilán Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meilán is held by more people in Spain than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms: Meilan. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meilán? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,034,050th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. Meilán occurs predominantly in Europe, where 75 percent of Meilán are found; 71 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 71 percent are found in Iberian Europe.
This last name is most prevalent in Spain, where it is carried by 17 people, or 1 in 2,750,120. In Spain it is primarily concentrated in: Galicia, where 41 percent live, Catalonia, where 24 percent live and Madrid, where 24 percent live. Apart from Spain Meilán exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 13 percent live and Colombia, where 4 percent live.
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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 Meilán
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