Melkyan Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Armenia

Melkyan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Melkyan Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Armenia11:2,930,18022,770
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Melkyan Last Name Facts

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

Melkyan (Russian: Мелкян) is carried by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Melkyan? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 7,593,402nd most widely held family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 50 percent of Melkyan live; 33 percent live in Southeast Asia and 33 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia.

The surname Melkyan is most commonly held in Indonesia, where it is held by 2 people, or 1 in 66,124,597. In Indonesia it is most frequent in: East Java, where 50 percent reside and Jakarta, where 50 percent reside. Without taking into account Indonesia this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 33 percent reside and Armenia, where 17 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Melkian868/
Melqyan861/
Melkion71180/
Melchian6717/
Melción571/
Melquion5339/
Melchion5313/
Milchian531/
Melcheon530/
Melquiond50288/

Melkyan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Melkyan in the Russian language
Мелкянmelkan-

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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 Melkyan
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