Metate Surname
Approximately 71 people bear this surname
Metate Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 50 | 1:415,381 | 35,427 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Metate Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Metate Come From? nationality or country of origin
Metate (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺘﺎﺗﻪ) is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Metate? popularity and diffusion
The last name Metate is the 2,255,512th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 102,641,492 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Metate live; 70 percent live in Central Africa and 70 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Metate is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 50 people, or 1 in 415,381. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 98 percent are found and Centre Region, where 2 percent are found. Beside Cameroon it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in India, where 21 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Metate Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Metate in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺘﺎﺗﻪ | mtath | 25 |
| ﺍﻣﺘﺎﺕ | amtat | 25 |
| ﻣﻴﻨﺎﺕ | mynat | 25 |
| ﻣﺘﺘﻪ | mtth | 25 |
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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 Metate
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