Meleu Surname
Approximately 690 people bear this surname
Meleu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 491 | 1:42,300 | 5,618 |
| Brazil | 113 | 1:1,894,463 | 60,739 |
| Solomon Islands | 28 | 1:20,715 | 4,044 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| Ivory Coast | 18 | 1:1,281,735 | 28,562 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Meleu (77) may also be a first name.
Meleu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meleu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meleu occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Meleu.
How Common Is The Last Name Meleu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Meleu is the 482,629th most numerous last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 10,561,661 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Meleu live; 71 percent live in Central Africa and 70 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,100,117th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 77 people.
This last name is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is held by 491 people, or 1 in 42,300. In Cameroon Meleu is most frequent in: West Region, where 51 percent live, Littoral Region, where 24 percent live and Centre Region, where 22 percent live. Other than Cameroon it is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 16 percent live and The Solomon Islands, where 4 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
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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 Meleu
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