Meres Surname
Approximately 3,335 people bear this surname
Meres Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 773 | 1:171,086 | 16,598 |
| Saudi Arabia | 557 | 1:55,396 | 7,891 |
| Poland | 539 | 1:70,517 | 11,056 |
| Brazil | 425 | 1:503,704 | 18,988 |
| United States | 282 | 1:1,285,315 | 90,259 |
| Philippines | 250 | 1:404,953 | 51,672 |
| Turkey | 118 | 1:659,504 | 34,418 |
| Argentina | 74 | 1:577,614 | 41,358 |
| Peru | 65 | 1:488,987 | 14,013 |
| Kenya | 46 | 1:1,003,911 | 34,451 |
| Scotland | 35 | 1:152,966 | 9,000 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Romania | 12 | 1:1,673,156 | 53,791 |
| Haiti | 7 | 1:1,526,272 | 14,436 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Chile | 6 | 1:2,936,079 | 35,997 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Luxembourg | 5 | 1:116,108 | 6,306 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4 | 1:340,994 | 12,383 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 1:106,243 | 1,380 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 17 | 1:220,189 | 7,953 |
| England | 17 | 1:1,433,845 | 49,523 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:313,683 | 10,604 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 65 | 1:772,595 | 48,648 |
The alternate forms: Mereš (16), Méres (8), Mereś (1), Mereş (1) & Mérés (9) are calculated separately.
Meres (1,581) may also be a first name.
Meres Demographics
Average Meres Salary in
United States
$41,567 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Meres Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meres Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meres (Marathi: मॅरेस, Oriya: େମେରସ, Russian: Мерес) is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Mereš, Méres, Mereś, Mereş or Mérés. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Meres? popularity and diffusion
It is the 134,911th most common surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 2,185,171 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 45 percent of Meres live; 24 percent live in Southeast Asia and 17 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Meres is also the 194,523rd most commonly used forename globally, borne by 1,581 people.
It is most widespread in Indonesia, where it is carried by 773 people, or 1 in 171,086. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: Bali, where 70 percent live, West Papua, where 23 percent live and Papua, where 5 percent live. Other than Indonesia this surname is found in 55 countries. It is also found in Saudi Arabia, where 17 percent live and Poland, where 16 percent live.
Meres Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Meres has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Meres surname expanded 434 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 206 percent between 1881 and 2014; in England it expanded 106 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Meres Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Meres surname are 9.48% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 56.25% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Meres earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Peru they earn 7.03% more than the national average, earning S/. 20,747 per year and in United States they earn 3.67% less than the national average, earning $41,567 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meres Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meres in the Oriya language | ||
| େମେରସ | emerasa | - |
| Meres in the Marathi language | ||
| मॅरेस | meresa | - |
| Meres in the Russian language | ||
| Мерес | meres | - |
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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 Meres
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