Meleke Surname
Approximately 2,486 people bear this surname
Meleke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,449 | 1:67,320 | 6,648 |
| Malawi | 444 | 1:38,557 | 5,632 |
| Congo | 272 | 1:18,342 | 2,177 |
| South Africa | 78 | 1:694,586 | 49,962 |
| Papua New Guinea | 48 | 1:169,869 | 23,574 |
| Ivory Coast | 44 | 1:524,346 | 16,367 |
| Nigeria | 42 | 1:4,217,685 | 117,088 |
| Turkey | 35 | 1:2,223,469 | 73,459 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Lesotho | 15 | 1:135,504 | 12,442 |
| Zambia | 10 | 1:1,584,992 | 31,679 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Solomon Islands | 7 | 1:82,861 | 15,196 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Meleke (4,615) may also be a first name.
Meleke Demographics
Average Meleke Salary in
South Africa
R 139,128
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Meleke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meleke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meleke is carried by more people in Ethiopia than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meleke? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 172,943rd most commonly held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 2,931,434 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Meleke reside; 58 percent reside in East Africa and 58 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Meleke is also the 101,004th most commonly occurring first name internationally, borne by 4,615 people.
Meleke is most frequently occurring in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 1,449 people, or 1 in 67,320. Not including Ethiopia Meleke exists in 23 countries. It is also common in Malawi, where 18 percent reside and The Congo, where 11 percent reside.
Meleke Last Name Statistics demography
Meleke earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 41.45% less than the national average, earning R 139,128 per year.
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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 Meleke
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