Melou Surname
Approximately 813 people bear this surname
Melou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 469 | 1:141,626 | 21,818 |
| Cameroon | 225 | 1:92,307 | 11,041 |
| Indonesia | 29 | 1:4,560,317 | 223,141 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| Greece | 15 | 1:738,653 | 80,079 |
| Russia | 12 | 1:12,010,255 | 361,204 |
| United States | 12 | 1:30,204,911 | 765,334 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Niger | 4 | 1:4,798,004 | 75,547 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Mélou (13) are calculated separately.
Melou (313) may also be a first name.
Melou Demographics
Average Melou Salary in
United States
$94,875 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Melou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Melou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Melou (Russian: Мелоу) has its highest incidence in France. It may also be rendered as: Mélou. Click here for further potential spellings of Melou.
How Common Is The Last Name Melou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 425,369th most frequent last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 8,963,771 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 61 percent of Melou live; 58 percent live in Western Europe and 58 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Melou is also the 496,565th most widespread first name in the world, held by 313 people.
The last name is most common in France, where it is carried by 469 people, or 1 in 141,626. In France Melou is mostly concentrated in: Brittany, where 30 percent live, Île-de-France, where 22 percent live and Occitanie, where 19 percent live. Outside of France it is found in 21 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 28 percent live and Indonesia, where 4 percent live.
Melou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Melou has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Melou last name expanded 1,200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Melou Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Melou earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 93.18% less than the national average, earning R 16,212 per year; in United States they earn 119.88% more than the national average, earning $94,875 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.18% less than the national average, earning $49,595 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Melou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Melou in the Russian language | ||
| Мелоу | melou | - |
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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 Melou
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