Mekere Surname
Approximately 1,546 people bear this surname
Mekere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,288 | 1:75,735 | 7,282 |
| Papua New Guinea | 150 | 1:54,358 | 6,878 |
| Kenya | 76 | 1:607,630 | 28,249 |
| India | 11 | 1:69,733,217 | 610,955 |
| Tanzania | 7 | 1:7,563,088 | 70,659 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mekere (122) may also be a first name.
Mekere Demographics
Mekere Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mekere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekere (Marathi: मेकेरे) is more commonly found in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekere? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 255,243rd most commonly occurring surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,713,807 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Mekere reside; 89 percent reside in East Africa and 83 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 844,248th most frequently occurring given name on earth, held by 122 people.
The last name is most numerous in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 1,288 people, or 1 in 75,735. Without taking into account Ethiopia Mekere exists in 13 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent reside and Kenya, where 5 percent reside.
Mekere Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Mekere earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 86.9% less than the national average, earning R 31,140 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mekere Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mekere in the Marathi language | ||
| मेकेरे | mekere | 88.89 |
| मॅकेरे | mekere | 11.11 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Mekere
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