Melessi Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Melessi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 36 | 1:640,868 | 18,598 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Melessi (10) may also be a first name.
Melessi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melessi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melessi occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Melessi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Melessi is the 2,776,799th most widely held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The last name Melessi occurs predominantly in Africa, where 37 percent of Melessi reside; 37 percent reside in West Africa and 31 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Melessi is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently used first name worldwide It is held by 10 people.
The surname Melessi is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 36 people, or 1 in 640,868. In The Ivory Coast Melessi is most common in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 58 percent live, Lagunes District, where 39 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 3 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 8 percent live and Cameroon, where 6 percent live.
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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 Melessi
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