Mekiya Surname
Approximately 15,011 people bear this surname
Mekiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 14,971 | 1:6,516 | 1,035 |
| Zimbabwe | 23 | 1:671,228 | 49,171 |
| Congo | 13 | 1:383,777 | 9,863 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Mekiya (454) may also be a first name.
Mekiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekiya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻜﻴﻪ, Hindi: मेकिया) occurs most in Ethiopia. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekiya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 35,213th most commonly occurring surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 485,480 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mekiya live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Mekiya is also the 401,195th most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 454 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 14,971 people, or 1 in 6,516. Excluding Ethiopia Mekiya is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 0 percent are found and The Congo, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mekiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mekiya in the Hindi language | ||
| मेकिया | mekiya | - |
| Mekiya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻜﻴﻪ | mkyh | 83.33 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﻜﻪ | amykh | 16.67 |
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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 Mekiya
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