Melal Surname
Approximately 731 people bear this surname
Melal Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 558 | 1:69,232 | 11,294 |
| Cameroon | 103 | 1:201,641 | 20,774 |
| Iran | 32 | 1:2,399,454 | 79,639 |
| Turkey | 10 | 1:7,782,142 | 126,629 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Melal (232) may also be a first name.
Melal Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melal Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Melal (Arabic: ملل, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﻞ, Russian: Мелаль) is borne by more people in Algeria than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melal? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 461,659th most prevalent last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 9,969,283 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Melal live; 77 percent live in North Africa and 77 percent live in Mahgreb. Melal is also the 588,797th most widely held forename worldwide, borne by 232 people.
Melal is most commonly held in Algeria, where it is carried by 558 people, or 1 in 69,232. In Algeria Melal is most common in: Algiers Province, where 39 percent reside, Relizane Province, where 29 percent reside and Oum el-Bouaghi Province, where 20 percent reside. Outside of Algeria this last name is found in 15 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 14 percent reside and Iran, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melal Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melal in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻠﻞ | mll | 85.71 |
| ﻣﻼﻝ | mlal | 14.29 |
| Melal in the Russian language | ||
| Мелаль | melal | - |
| Melal in the Arabic language | ||
| ملل | mll | - |
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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 Melal
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