Melece Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Melece Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 68 | 1:30,148 | 4,623 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Melece (33) may also be a first name.
Melece Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melece Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melece is found most in Latvia. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Melece? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,273,756th most commonly occurring last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. The last name Melece occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Melece are found; 99 percent are found in Northern Europe and 97 percent are found in Baltic Europe. It is also the 1,807,719th most frequently held first name world-wide It is held by 33 people.
Melece is most frequent in Latvia, where it is borne by 68 people, or 1 in 30,148. In Latvia Melece is mostly found in: Riga Planning Region, where 40 percent live, Vidzeme, where 34 percent live and Latgale, where 19 percent live. Beside Latvia this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 1 percent live and Norway, where 1 percent live.
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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 Melece
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