Mettar Surname
Approximately 324 people bear this surname
Mettar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Algeria | 86 | 1:449,204 | 35,752 |
| India | 39 | 1:19,668,343 | 291,059 |
| Nepal | 38 | 1:749,499 | 5,277 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Mettar (66) may also be a first name.
Mettar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mettar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mettar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺘﺎﺭ, Marathi: मेार) is held by more people in Morocco than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mettar? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 846,108th most common last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 22,492,426 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 70 percent of Mettar are found; 69 percent are found in North Africa and 69 percent are found in Mahgreb. Mettar is also the 1,201,840th most commonly used first name globally, held by 66 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Morocco, where it is borne by 136 people, or 1 in 253,501. Outside of Morocco this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 27 percent reside and India, where 12 percent reside.
Mettar Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Mettar has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Mettar surname grew 222 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mettar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mettar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺘﺎﺭ | mtar | 88.89 |
| ﻣﻄﺎﺭ | mtar | 11.11 |
| Mettar in the Marathi language | ||
| मेार | meara | 66.67 |
| मेतथर | metathara | 33.33 |
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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 Mettar
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