Mekea Surname
Approximately 69 people bear this surname
Mekea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 53 | 1:153,844 | 21,244 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mekea (62) may also be a first name.
Mekea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekea Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekea is most common in Papua New Guinea. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Mekea click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekea? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,293,424th most commonly used last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 105,616,607 people. The last name Mekea is mostly found in Oceania, where 77 percent of Mekea reside; 77 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 77 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Mekea is also the 1,246,114th most widely held first name globally It is held by 62 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 53 people, or 1 in 153,844. In Papua New Guinea Mekea is most prevalent in: Bougainville, where 32 percent reside, Western, where 19 percent reside and National Capital District, where 17 percent reside. Other than Papua New Guinea Mekea occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 17 percent reside and Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Mekea
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