Mekone Surname
Approximately 164 people bear this surname
Mekone Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 152 | 1:136,639 | 15,295 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mekone (930) may also be a first name.
Mekone Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekone Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mekone is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Mekone.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekone? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,353,468th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 44,436,256 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Mekone reside; 91 percent reside in Central Africa and 90 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Mekone is also the 265,244th most frequently held forename at a global level It is held by 930 people.
It is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 152 people, or 1 in 136,639. In Cameroon Mekone is primarily found in: Southwest Region, where 54 percent live, Littoral Region, where 24 percent live and Centre Region, where 16 percent live. Besides Cameroon this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Ethiopia, where 2 percent live and Latvia, where 1 percent live.
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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 Mekone
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