Melle Surname
Approximately 5,304 people bear this surname
Melle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 824 | 1:74,219 | 13,073 |
| United States | 654 | 1:554,219 | 45,765 |
| Germany | 632 | 1:127,382 | 15,532 |
| France | 587 | 1:113,156 | 16,948 |
| Niger | 426 | 1:45,052 | 2,332 |
| Nigeria | 391 | 1:453,051 | 23,131 |
| Brazil | 325 | 1:658,690 | 24,334 |
| Cameroon | 321 | 1:64,701 | 8,219 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Indonesia | 127 | 1:1,041,332 | 75,890 |
| Norway | 124 | 1:41,470 | 5,930 |
| Spain | 110 | 1:425,019 | 22,707 |
| Canada | 102 | 1:361,231 | 32,546 |
| Greece | 78 | 1:142,049 | 23,538 |
| Argentina | 69 | 1:619,470 | 43,674 |
| Latvia | 54 | 1:37,964 | 5,774 |
| India | 49 | 1:15,654,396 | 253,566 |
| South Africa | 31 | 1:1,747,668 | 84,236 |
| Netherlands | 26 | 1:649,507 | 53,972 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Switzerland | 24 | 1:342,205 | 26,446 |
| Sweden | 20 | 1:492,338 | 35,486 |
| Turkey | 18 | 1:4,323,412 | 102,143 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Ivory Coast | 15 | 1:1,538,082 | 31,691 |
| Belgium | 14 | 1:821,189 | 66,436 |
| Algeria | 10 | 1:3,863,155 | 47,113 |
| Venezuela | 9 | 1:3,356,009 | 33,931 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Mauritania | 8 | 1:511,858 | 18,608 |
| Tanzania | 7 | 1:7,563,088 | 70,659 |
| Russia | 7 | 1:20,589,008 | 462,339 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Slovakia | 4 | 1:1,334,112 | 94,300 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:64,439 | 2,137 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 1 | 1:13,610 | 185 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 36 | 1:1,394,963 | 75,931 |
The alternate forms: Mellé (17), Mellè (2) & Méllé (1) are calculated separately.
Melle (4,384) may also be a first name.
Melle Demographics
Average Male Melle Height
177.15 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Melle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melle Come From? nationality or country of origin
Melle (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻠﻪ, Marathi: मेळे, Russian: Мелле) is more commonly found in Italy than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Mellé, Mellè or Méllé. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Melle? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 90,378th most prevalent last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 1,373,972 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 48 percent of Melle reside; 24 percent reside in Western Europe and 16 percent reside in Italic Europe. Melle is also the 104,249th most commonly held first name globally It is held by 4,384 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Italy, where it is carried by 824 people, or 1 in 74,219. In Italy Melle is mostly concentrated in: Apulia, where 54 percent are found, Piedmont, where 18 percent are found and Valle d'Aosta, where 14 percent are found. Barring Italy this last name exists in 56 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 12 percent are found and Germany, where 12 percent are found.
Melle Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Melle has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Melle surname rose 1,817 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 1,200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Melle Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Melle last name are 11.8% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 58.57% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Melle earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 39.62% more than the national average, earning 483,196 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 28.55% less than the national average, earning R 169,788 per year; in United States they earn 7.36% more than the national average, earning $46,326 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.15% less than the national average, earning $48,614 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melle Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melle in the Marathi language | ||
| मेळे | mele | - |
| Melle in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻠﻪ | mlh | 65.22 |
| ﻣﻠﻞ | mll | 13.04 |
| ﻣﻞ | ml | 8.7 |
| ﻣﻠﺔ | mlt | 8.7 |
| ﻣﻠﻰ | mly | 4.35 |
| Melle in the Russian language | ||
| Мелле | melle | - |
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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 Melle
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