Meite Surname
Approximately 32,036 people bear this surname
Meite Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 31,202 | 1:739 | 80 |
| Mali | 323 | 1:52,536 | 1,331 |
| France | 156 | 1:425,787 | 61,887 |
| United States | 103 | 1:3,519,019 | 197,606 |
| Haiti | 91 | 1:117,406 | 5,426 |
| Burkina Faso | 24 | 1:764,671 | 8,666 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Estonia | 19 | 1:69,569 | 12,771 |
| New Caledonia | 16 | 1:17,264 | 4,719 |
| Spain | 10 | 1:4,675,204 | 78,608 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
The alternate forms: Meité (20), Meïte (11), Méite (1), Méité (9), Meïté (8) & Méïté (3) are calculated separately.
Meite (5,446) may also be a first name.
Meite Demographics
Average Meite Salary in
United States
$30,752 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Meite Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meite Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meite (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﻴﺖ) is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Meité, Meïte, Méite, Méité, Meïté or Méïté. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meite? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 17,300th most prevalent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 227,480 people. Meite is primarily found in Africa, where 71 percent of Meite reside; 71 percent reside in West Africa and 43 percent reside in Mande Africa. Meite is also the 91,108th most commonly occurring forename at a global level, borne by 5,446 people.
Meite is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 31,202 people, or 1 in 739. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Woroba District, where 38 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 8 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast it is found in 35 countries. It is also common in Mali, where 1 percent are found and France, where 0 percent are found.
Meite Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Meite last name are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% registered to vote for the political party.
Meite earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 28.73% less than the national average, earning $30,752 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meite Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meite in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﻴﺖ | amyt | 29.17 |
| ﻣﻴﺖ | myt | 25 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﺘﻪ | amyth | 20.83 |
| ﻣﻴﺘﻪ | myth | 8.33 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﺖ | amyt | 8.33 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﺔ | amyt | 4.17 |
| ﻣﻴﺔ | myt | 4.17 |
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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 Meite
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