Metay Surname
Approximately 1,110 people bear this surname
Metay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 900 | 1:73,803 | 10,335 |
| India | 147 | 1:5,218,132 | 128,839 |
| Northern Cyprus | 28 | 1:11,393 | 2,921 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
The alternate forms: Métay (10) are calculated separately.
Metay (39) may also be a first name.
Metay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Metay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Metay (Marathi: मेताय, Tibetan: མི་སྤྲོས།) occurs more in France more than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Métay. Click here for further potential spellings of Metay.
How Common Is The Last Name Metay? popularity and diffusion
The last name Metay is the 332,973rd most widely held last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 6,565,357 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 84 percent of Metay are found; 81 percent are found in Western Europe and 81 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 1,637,361st most commonly held first name world-wide It is held by 39 people.
This last name is most commonly used in France, where it is carried by 900 people, or 1 in 73,803. In France it is mostly concentrated in: Pays de la Loire, where 31 percent are found, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 22 percent are found and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 13 percent are found. Beside France this surname exists in 19 countries. It also occurs in India, where 13 percent are found and Northern Cyprus, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Metay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Metay in the Tibetan language | ||
| མི་སྤྲོས། | mitrö | - |
| Metay in the Marathi language | ||
| मेताय | metaya | - |
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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 Metay
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