Meité Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Meité Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
The alternate forms: Meite (32,036), Méité (9), Meïté (8), Meïte (11), Méïté (3) & Méite (1) are calculated separately.
Meité Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meité Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meité is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Meite, Méité, Meïté, Meïte, Méïté or Méite. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meité? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,427,875th most common last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname Meité is predominantly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Meité live; 60 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Meité is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 1,922,603. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in France, where 25 percent are found and Belgium, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Meité
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