Melev Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Melev Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 68 | 1:102,631 | 6,160 |
| North Macedonia | 38 | 1:55,302 | 5,771 |
| Slovenia | 7 | 1:355,382 | 17,336 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Melev (11) may also be a first name.
Melev Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melev Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melev (Russian: Мелев) is found most frequently in Bulgaria. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Melev? popularity and diffusion
The surname Melev is the 1,504,764th most prevalent surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 52,428,388 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Melev live; 83 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 83 percent live in South Slavic Europe. Melev is also the 3,487,849th most frequently occurring given name at a global level, borne by 11 people.
The surname Melev is most common in Bulgaria, where it is carried by 68 people, or 1 in 102,631. In Bulgaria it is most frequent in: Plovdiv Province, where 62 percent live, Burgas Province, where 12 percent live and Sofia City Province, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account Bulgaria this surname exists in 14 countries. It also occurs in North Macedonia, where 27 percent live and Slovenia, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melev Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melev in the Russian language | ||
| Мелев | melev | - |
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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 Melev
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