Mekoya Surname
Approximately 13,563 people bear this surname
Mekoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 13,522 | 1:7,214 | 1,135 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Mekoya (15,384) may also be a first name.
Mekoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekoya is carried by more people in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Mekoya.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekoya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 38,780th most commonly used family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 537,311 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mekoya reside; 100 percent reside in East Africa and 100 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Mekoya is also the 45,591st most frequently held first name globally, borne by 15,384 people.
The last name Mekoya is most frequently held in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 13,522 people, or 1 in 7,214. Barring Ethiopia this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent live and Indonesia, where 0 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 Mekoya
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