Melese Surname
Approximately 162,964 people bear this surname
Melese Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 162,589 | 1:600 | 93 |
| United States | 115 | 1:3,151,817 | 182,069 |
| South Africa | 94 | 1:576,359 | 44,560 |
| Italy | 46 | 1:1,329,493 | 77,702 |
| Philippines | 19 | 1:5,328,328 | 173,877 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| New Zealand | 12 | 1:377,360 | 28,765 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Argentina | 5 | 1:8,548,683 | 204,003 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Mélèse (3) are calculated separately.
Melese (296,193) may also be a first name.
Melese Demographics
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Melese Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melese Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melese (Arabic: ميليسي) is most common in Ethiopia. It can also be rendered as: Mélèse. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melese? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,435th most commonly used family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 44,719 people. The last name Melese is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Melese live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Melese is also the 3,550th most frequently held first name worldwide, held by 296,193 people.
This last name is most widespread in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 162,589 people, or 1 in 600. Without taking into account Ethiopia Melese occurs in 31 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent live and South Africa, where 0 percent live.
Melese Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Melese surname are 38.44% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 91.67% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Melese earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 42.98% less than the national average, earning 197,336 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 51.97% less than the national average, earning R 114,144 per year; in United States they earn 0.25% more than the national average, earning $43,255 USD per year and in Canada they earn 41.6% less than the national average, earning $29,016 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melese Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melese in the Arabic language | ||
| ميليسي | mylysy | - |
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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 Melese
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