Meleket Surname
Approximately 14 people bear this surname
Meleket Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Meleket (15) may also be a first name.
Meleket Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meleket Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meleket is more frequently found in The Congo than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Meleket click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meleket? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meleket is the 5,213,395th most frequent last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 520,538,994 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Meleket live; 64 percent live in Central Africa and 64 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Meleket is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring given name at a global level, held by 15 people.
Meleket is most frequent in The Congo, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 554,344. In The Congo Meleket is most frequent in: Brazzaville Department, where 100 percent live. Apart from The Congo this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 21 percent live and Ethiopia, where 7 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melekit | 86 | 10 | / |
| Maleket | 86 | 2 | / |
| Meliket | 86 | 1 | / |
| Melaket | 86 | 1 | / |
| Mgelekit | 80 | 9 | / |
| Maleiket | 80 | 1 | / |
| Melechett | 75 | 1 | / |
| Malaket | 71 | 20 | / |
| Meleskaite | 71 | 3 | / |
| Maliket | 71 | 1 | / |
| Meleced | 71 | 1 | / |
| Meleškaitė | 71 | 1 | / |
| Malekit | 71 | 1 | / |
| Melakit | 71 | 1 | / |
| Maleked | 71 | 1 | / |
| Malacket | 67 | 14 | / |
| Malaiket | 67 | 4 | / |
| Malekhed | 67 | 2 | / |
| Malekith | 67 | 1 | / |
| Meliquet | 67 | 1 | / |
| Milekite | 67 | 1 | / |
| Michelleskeite | 67 | 1 | / |
| Malleked | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Meleket
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