Melei Surname
Approximately 268 people bear this surname
Melei Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
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Ivory Coast | 85 | 1:271,426 | 10,543 |
United States | 76 | 1:4,769,196 | 247,034 |
India | 47 | 1:16,320,540 | 259,912 |
Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
American Samoa | 6 | 1:9,293 | 1,961 |
Ukraine | 5 | 1:9,104,539 | 300,808 |
Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Tuvalu | 1 | 1:11,188 | 103 |
The alternate forms: Meleï (1) are calculated separately.
Melei (2,107) may also be a first name.
Melei Demographics
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Melei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Melei (Oriya: େମେଲଇ) is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant: Meleï. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Melei? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 968,490th most commonly occurring family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 27,192,336 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 25 percent of Melei reside; 25 percent reside in North America and 25 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Melei is also the 163,842nd most numerous first name internationally, borne by 2,107 people.
The surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 85 people, or 1 in 271,426. In The Ivory Coast it is most common in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 53 percent are found, Montagnes District, where 25 percent are found and Lagunes District, where 9 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 18 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 28 percent are found and India, where 18 percent are found.
Melei Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Melei last name are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 66.67% being registered with the party.
Melei earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 24.26% less than the national average, earning $32,680 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melei Name Transliterations
Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
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Melei in the Oriya language | ||
େମେଲଇ | emela'i | - |
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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 Melei
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