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 last name Melama (Bengali: মেলামা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻌﻼﻡ, Marathi: मेलामा, Oriya: େମଲମା) is most common in The Ivory Coast. It can also be found as: Mélama. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Melama? popularity and diffusion
Melama is the 1,674,734th most frequent family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 61,758,864 people. The surname Melama occurs predominantly in Africa, where 63 percent of Melama reside; 44 percent reside in West Africa and 42 percent reside in Mande Africa. Melama is also the 312,567th most frequently used first name on earth, borne by 699 people.
This last name is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 67 people, or 1 in 344,347. In The Ivory Coast Melama is most common in: Woroba District, where 72 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 25 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 3 percent live. Beside The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 14 percent live and Finland, where 10 percent live.
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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