Messah Surname
Approximately 3,510 people bear this surname
Messah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 1,487 | 1:25,980 | 4,747 |
| Liberia | 777 | 1:5,674 | 687 |
| Cameroon | 369 | 1:56,285 | 7,266 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Indonesia | 273 | 1:484,429 | 39,843 |
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| France | 80 | 1:830,284 | 98,964 |
| Benin | 34 | 1:303,988 | 24,879 |
| United States | 34 | 1:10,660,557 | 428,392 |
| Nigeria | 27 | 1:6,560,843 | 154,927 |
| Tanzania | 11 | 1:4,812,874 | 55,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Messah (735) may also be a first name.
Messah Demographics
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Messah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Messah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Messah occurs most in Algeria. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Messah? popularity and diffusion
Messah is the 128,989th most prevalent surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 2,076,224 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Messah live; 42 percent live in North Africa and 42 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 303,693rd most commonly used first name world-wide. It is borne by 735 people.
This surname is most numerous in Algeria, where it is carried by 1,487 people, or 1 in 25,980. In Algeria Messah is mostly found in: Sétif Province, where 59 percent reside, Chlef Province, where 23 percent reside and Béjaïa Province, where 10 percent reside. Barring Algeria it exists in 25 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 22 percent reside and Cameroon, where 11 percent reside.
Messah Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Messah has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 1,700 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Messah Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Messah surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 100% registered to vote for the party.
Messah earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 16.75% more than the national average, earning $50,375 USD per year.
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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 Messah
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