Meiyah Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Meiyah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
Meiyah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meiyah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Meiyah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻴﺎﻩ) is most common in Indonesia. It may also be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meiyah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,532,898th most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 383,555,048 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 63 percent of Meiyah reside; 63 percent reside in West Africa and 37 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is carried by 7 people, or 1 in 18,892,742. In Indonesia it is most numerous in: West Papua, where 100 percent live. Barring Indonesia it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 32 percent live and Mauritania, where 32 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meiyah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meiyah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻴﺎﻩ | myah | - |
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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 Meiyah
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