Metab Surname
Approximately 403 people bear this surname
Metab Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| India | 124 | 1:6,186,011 | 143,436 |
| Pakistan | 29 | 1:6,160,134 | 36,715 |
| Iran | 10 | 1:7,678,252 | 153,484 |
| Afghanistan | 9 | 1:3,572,576 | 20,130 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Israel | 7 | 1:1,222,519 | 68,299 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
Metab (4,208) may also be a first name.
Metab Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Metab Come From? nationality or country of origin
Metab (Hindi: मेताब, Marathi: मेताब, Oriya: େମତାବ, Tibetan: སྨད་སྟབ།) occurs more in Egypt more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Metab? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 722,496th most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 18,083,240 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 53 percent of Metab live; 53 percent live in North Africa and 53 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 106,977th most commonly held first name world-wide, held by 4,208 people.
Metab is most frequent in Egypt, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 429,606. Other than Egypt this last name is found in 7 countries. It is also found in India, where 31 percent reside and Pakistan, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Metab Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Metab in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྨད་སྟབ། | métab | - |
| Metab in the Oriya language | ||
| େମତାବ | emataba | - |
| Metab in the Hindi language | ||
| मेताब | metaba | 98.9 |
| Metab in the Marathi language | ||
| मेताब | metaba | 97.06 |
| मेतब | metaba | 2.94 |
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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 Metab
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