Meiny Surname
Approximately 64 people bear this surname
Meiny Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 38 | 1:107,760 | 6,553 |
| Indonesia | 24 | 1:5,510,383 | 253,014 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Meiny (513) may also be a first name.
Meiny Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meiny Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meiny (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﻴﻨﻲ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Meiny click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meiny? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,394,033rd most commonly used family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 113,867,905 people. The surname Meiny is predominantly found in Africa, where 59 percent of Meiny live; 59 percent live in West Africa and 59 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Meiny is also the 373,244th most widespread first name internationally. It is borne by 513 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 38 people, or 1 in 107,760. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 92 percent live, Guidimagha Region, where 3 percent live and Trarza Region, where 3 percent live. Apart from Mauritania Meiny occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 38 percent live and Brazil, where 2 percent live.
Meiny Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Meiny has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Meiny surname decreased 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meiny Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meiny in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﻴﻨﻲ | amyny | 38.46 |
| ﻣﻴﻨﻲ | myny | 30.77 |
| ﻣﻴﻨﻰ | myny | 7.69 |
| ﻣﻴﻦ | myn | 7.69 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﻨﻰ | amyny | 7.69 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﻦ | amyn | 7.69 |
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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 Meiny
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