Melam Surname
Approximately 4,413 people bear this surname
Melam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4,223 | 1:181,640 | 11,086 |
| Iran | 65 | 1:1,181,270 | 51,307 |
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| United States | 30 | 1:12,081,964 | 463,456 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Bhutan | 7 | 1:88,006 | 800 |
| Afghanistan | 5 | 1:6,430,637 | 27,710 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
Melam (660) may also be a first name.
Melam Demographics
Average Melam Salary in
United States
$55,000 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Melam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melam (Hindi: मेलम, Marathi: मेलाम, Oriya: େମଲମ, Russian: Мелам, Tibetan: སྨོན་ལམ་) occurs more in India more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Melam? popularity and diffusion
The surname Melam is the 106,023rd most commonly occurring last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 1,651,381 people. The last name Melam is predominantly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Melam live; 97 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 323,152nd most frequently held first name worldwide It is held by 660 people.
The surname is most common in India, where it is borne by 4,223 people, or 1 in 181,640. In India it is mostly found in: Andhra Pradesh, where 94 percent reside, Telangana, where 4 percent reside and Karnataka, where 1 percent reside. Without taking into account India it occurs in 20 countries. It also occurs in Iran, where 1 percent reside and Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
Melam Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Melam has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Melam surname expanded 158 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Melam Last Name Statistics demography
Melam earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 27.47% more than the national average, earning $55,000 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melam in the Hindi language | ||
| मेलम | melama | - |
| Melam in the Oriya language | ||
| େମଲମ | emalama | - |
| Melam in the Marathi language | ||
| मेलाम | melama | 83.33 |
| येळाम | yelama | 16.67 |
| Melam in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྨོན་ལམ་ | mönlam | 72.34 |
| སྨོན་ལམ། | mönlam | 17.45 |
| སྨི་ལམ་ | milam | 1.7 |
| སྨིན་ལམ་ | minlam | 1.28 |
| སྨན་ལམ་ | menlam | 1.28 |
| རྨི་ལམ་ | milam | 0.85 |
| སྨིག་ལམ་ | miklam | 0.43 |
| སྨེན་ལམ་ | menlam | 0.43 |
| སྨི་ལམ། | milam | 0.43 |
| མི་ལམ་ | milam | 0.43 |
| སྨེད་ལམ། | mélam | 0.43 |
| སྨོན་ལམ | mönlam | 0.43 |
| མན་དྲལ། | mendral | 0.43 |
| སྨིན་ལམ། | minlam | 0.43 |
| སྨན་ལམ། | menlam | 0.43 |
| སྨོད་ལམ། | mölam | 0.43 |
| སྨོལ་ལམ། | mollam | 0.43 |
| སྨོ་ལམ། | molam | 0.43 |
| Melam in the Russian language | ||
| Мелам | melam | - |
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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
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