Melec Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Melec Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 97 | 1:684,770 | 87,242 |
| Croatia | 18 | 1:234,922 | 26,068 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
The alternate forms: Meleć (1) & Mélec (1) are calculated separately.
Melec (138) may also be a first name.
Melec Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melec Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Melec is found most frequently in France. It can also occur as a variant: Meleć or Mélec. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melec? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,544,715th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 91 percent of Melec live; 72 percent live in Western Europe and 72 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Melec is also the 787,636th most commonly used forename world-wide, borne by 138 people.
The last name Melec is most numerous in France, where it is held by 97 people, or 1 in 684,770. In France Melec is most frequent in: Brittany, where 35 percent are found, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 23 percent are found and Hauts-de-France, where 18 percent are found. Not including France Melec occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Croatia, where 13 percent are found and Taiwan, where 3 percent are found.
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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
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