Melingan Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malaysia
Highest density in:
Malaysia

Melingan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Melingan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malaysia61:4,915,704170,578
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679

Melingan (16) may also be a first name.

Melingan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Melingan Come From? nationality or country of origin

Melingan occurs more in Malaysia more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Melingan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 6,723,624th most commonly used family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 75 percent of Melingan are found; 75 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 75 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Melingan is also the 2,786,762nd most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 16 people.

The surname is most prevalent in Malaysia, where it is carried by 6 people, or 1 in 4,915,704. In Malaysia it is primarily concentrated in: Sarawak, where 100 percent are found. Barring Malaysia this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 13 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 13 percent are found.

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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 Melingan
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