Melika Surname
Approximately 3,736 people bear this surname
Melika Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,610 | 1:60,588 | 6,165 |
| India | 944 | 1:812,569 | 36,320 |
| Egypt | 580 | 1:158,510 | 12,069 |
| Iran | 185 | 1:415,041 | 26,306 |
| Algeria | 145 | 1:266,424 | 27,662 |
| United States | 60 | 1:6,040,982 | 292,121 |
| Indonesia | 52 | 1:2,543,254 | 149,807 |
| Russia | 35 | 1:4,117,802 | 198,221 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Hungary | 17 | 1:577,428 | 34,558 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Czechia | 11 | 1:966,679 | 76,885 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Albania | 7 | 1:416,294 | 17,617 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
The alternate forms: Mélika (4) are calculated separately.
Melika (16,577) may also be a first name.
Melika Demographics
Melika Religious Adherence
in Ukraine
Religious Adherence
in Ukraine
Melika Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melika Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Melika (Georgian: მელიკა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﻴﻜﻪ, Hindi: मेलिका, Oriya: େମଲିକା, Russian: Мелика) occurs more in Ethiopia more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant: Mélika. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Melika? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 122,400th most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 1,950,628 people. The surname Melika occurs predominantly in Africa, where 64 percent of Melika live; 43 percent live in East Africa and 43 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Melika is also the 43,308th most widespread first name in the world, held by 16,577 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Ethiopia, where it is held by 1,610 people, or 1 in 60,588. Apart from Ethiopia this last name exists in 39 countries. It is also common in India, where 25 percent live and Egypt, where 16 percent live.
Melika Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Melika last name is predominantly Orthodox (69%) in Ukraine.
In The United States Melika are 19.5% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 72.73% registered with the political party.
The amount Melika earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 96.76% less than the national average, earning R 7,704 per year and in United States they earn 30.39% more than the national average, earning $56,261 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melika Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melika in the Georgian language | ||
| მელიკა | melika | - |
| Melika in the Hindi language | ||
| मेलिका | melika | - |
| Melika in the Oriya language | ||
| େମଲିକା | emalika | - |
| Melika in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻠﻴﻜﻪ | mlykh | 71.43 |
| ﻣﻠﻴﻜﺔ | mlykt | 15.53 |
| ﻣﻠﻜﺔ | mlkt | 6.21 |
| ﻣﻠﻜﻪ | mlkh | 4.35 |
| ﻣﻠﻴﻚ | mlyk | 1.86 |
| Melika in the Russian language | ||
| Мелика | melika | - |
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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 Melika
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