Mekeria Surname

881,213th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 306 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Mekeria Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mekeria Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea3011:27,0893,050
Algeria31:12,877,18484,902
Ethiopia11:97,546,26229,669
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Mekeria (224) may also be a first name.

Mekeria Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mekeria Come From? nationality or country of origin

Mekeria has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Mekeria? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 881,213th most frequently occurring last name globally It is held by around 1 in 23,815,510 people. The last name Mekeria occurs mostly in Oceania, where 98 percent of Mekeria are found; 98 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 98 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Mekeria is also the 601,629th most numerous given name worldwide, borne by 224 people.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 301 people, or 1 in 27,089. In Papua New Guinea Mekeria is most frequent in: Hela, where 90 percent are found, Enga, where 3 percent are found and Madang, where 3 percent are found. Barring Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 1 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 0 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 Mekeria
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