Melame Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Melame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 51 | 1:407,237 | 34,925 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Melame (96) may also be a first name.
Melame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melame Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Melame (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﻢ, Marathi: मेलमे) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melame? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,352,516th most frequent family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Melame reside; 77 percent reside in Central Africa and 41 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Melame is also the 968,397th most frequent first name in the world It is held by 96 people.
This surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 51 people, or 1 in 407,237. In Cameroon Melame is most common in: Centre Region, where 31 percent live, South Region, where 25 percent live and East Region, where 22 percent live. Not including Cameroon it exists in 6 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 9 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melame Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melame in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻠﻢ | mlm | - |
| Melame in the Marathi language | ||
| मेलमे | melame | - |
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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 Melame
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