Melanyi Surname
Approximately 162 people bear this surname
Melanyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 145 | 1:365,115 | 26,840 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Ukraine | 5 | 1:9,104,539 | 300,808 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Melanyi (106) may also be a first name.
Melanyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melanyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melanyi is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melanyi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Melanyi is the 1,364,059th most commonly used family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 44,984,851 people. Melanyi is predominantly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Melanyi live; 90 percent live in East Africa and 90 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Melanyi is also the 915,176th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 106 people.
The last name Melanyi is most widespread in Tanzania, where it is borne by 145 people, or 1 in 365,115. In Tanzania it is primarily found in: Arusha Region, where 99 percent reside and Kilimanjaro Region, where 1 percent reside. Besides Tanzania Melanyi exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 6 percent reside and Ukraine, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Melanyi
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