Meleh Surname
Approximately 271 people bear this surname
Meleh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 179 | 1:989,624 | 41,927 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 1:865,378 | 58,754 |
| Croatia | 9 | 1:469,845 | 36,710 |
| Ukraine | 8 | 1:5,690,337 | 241,823 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Panama | 3 | 1:1,304,086 | 13,647 |
| Liberia | 3 | 1:1,469,512 | 38,766 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
Meleh (163) may also be a first name.
Meleh Demographics
Average Meleh Salary in
United States
$87,083 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Meleh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meleh Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meleh (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﺢ) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meleh? popularity and diffusion
The last name Meleh is the 961,438th most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 26,891,313 people. The surname Meleh occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Meleh live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Meleh is also the 717,791st most frequent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 163 people.
Meleh is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 179 people, or 1 in 989,624. In Nigeria Meleh is primarily concentrated in: Yobe, where 59 percent are found, Borno, where 31 percent are found and Federal Capital Territory, where 9 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this surname is found in 19 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 9 percent are found and Croatia, where 3 percent are found.
Meleh Last Name Statistics demography
Meleh earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 101.82% more than the national average, earning $87,083 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meleh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meleh in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻠﺢ | mlh | 75 |
| ﻣﻠﻪ | mlh | 12.5 |
| ﺃﻣﻠﻪ | amlh | 12.5 |
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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 Meleh
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