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
Melame (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﻢ, Marathi: मेलमे) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Melame? popularity and diffusion
The surname Melame is the 2,352,516th most commonly used family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 110,417,362 people. The last name Melame occurs predominantly in Africa, where 86 percent of Melame live; 77 percent live in Central Africa and 41 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 968,397th most frequently held forename in the world, borne by 96 people.
It is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 51 people, or 1 in 407,237. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 31 percent live, South Region, where 25 percent live and East Region, where 22 percent live. Apart from Cameroon this last name 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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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