Melama Surname
Approximately 118 people bear this surname
Melama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 67 | 1:344,347 | 12,387 |
| Cameroon | 17 | 1:1,221,710 | 73,195 |
| Finland | 12 | 1:458,058 | 28,977 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
The alternate forms: Mélama (1) are calculated separately.
Melama (699) may also be a first name.
Melama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Melama (Bengali: মেলামা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻌﻼﻡ, Marathi: मेलामा, Oriya: େମଲମା) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It can be found in the variant forms: Mélama. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melama? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,674,734th most commonly held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 61,758,864 people. The surname Melama is mostly found in Africa, where 63 percent of Melama are found; 44 percent are found in West Africa and 42 percent are found in Mande Africa. Melama is also the 312,567th most commonly occurring forename world-wide It is held by 699 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 67 people, or 1 in 344,347. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Woroba District, where 72 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 25 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 3 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 14 percent reside and Finland, where 10 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melama Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melama in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻌﻼﻡ | mlam | - |
| Melama in the Bengali language | ||
| মেলামা | melama | - |
| Melama in the Oriya language | ||
| େମଲମା | emalama | - |
| Melama in the Marathi language | ||
| मेलामा | melama | - |
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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 Melama
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