Meliyah Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Meliyah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 40 | 1:3,306,230 | 179,945 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Meliyah (334) may also be a first name.
Meliyah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meliyah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meliyah is borne by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meliyah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,055,934th most frequently used family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 177,745,022 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Meliyah reside; 98 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 98 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Meliyah is also the 478,963rd most commonly occurring given name world-wide, borne by 334 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is borne by 40 people, or 1 in 3,306,230. In Indonesia Meliyah is most numerous in: West Java, where 75 percent reside, Aceh, where 18 percent reside and Central Java, where 8 percent reside. Apart from Indonesia Meliyah occurs in one country. It is also common in Nigeria, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Meliyah
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