Melehe Surname
Approximately 51 people bear this surname
Melehe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 29 | 1:795,560 | 21,349 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Melehe (465) may also be a first name.
Melehe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melehe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melehe is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melehe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,718,172nd most widely held surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 142,893,057 people. Melehe is primarily found in Africa, where 76 percent of Melehe live; 76 percent live in West Africa and 41 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 395,119th most widely held first name globally, borne by 465 people.
The last name is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 29 people, or 1 in 795,560. In The Ivory Coast Melehe is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 55 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 38 percent reside and Savanes District, where 7 percent reside. Other than The Ivory Coast it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 41 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 2 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
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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 Melehe
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