Mette Surname
Approximately 6,527 people bear this surname
Mette Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,697 | 1:29,850 | 3,929 |
| United States | 1,169 | 1:310,059 | 28,443 |
| France | 868 | 1:76,524 | 10,751 |
| Brazil | 501 | 1:427,294 | 16,230 |
| Italy | 308 | 1:198,561 | 28,720 |
| India | 223 | 1:3,439,755 | 98,400 |
| Cameroon | 140 | 1:148,350 | 16,370 |
| Ivory Coast | 102 | 1:226,189 | 9,304 |
| Denmark | 68 | 1:83,011 | 8,046 |
| Estonia | 54 | 1:24,478 | 4,454 |
| Namibia | 47 | 1:51,264 | 6,204 |
| Russia | 46 | 1:3,133,110 | 167,157 |
| Indonesia | 44 | 1:3,005,664 | 168,399 |
| Nigeria | 25 | 1:7,085,710 | 162,099 |
| Finland | 25 | 1:219,868 | 18,073 |
| Norway | 19 | 1:270,647 | 28,127 |
| Canada | 19 | 1:1,939,242 | 123,675 |
| Poland | 17 | 1:2,235,809 | 104,965 |
| Argentina | 16 | 1:2,671,463 | 118,579 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Czechia | 13 | 1:817,959 | 70,223 |
| Senegal | 11 | 1:1,325,395 | 3,666 |
| Cape Verde | 10 | 1:52,964 | 1,947 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 1:1,688,718 | 81,846 |
| Austria | 10 | 1:851,544 | 67,454 |
| Mali | 9 | 1:1,885,448 | 1,868 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 194 | 1:258,859 | 21,305 |
The alternate forms: Metté (4) are calculated separately.
Mette (73,795) may also be a first name.
Mette Demographics
Average Mette Salary in
United States
$47,302 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Mette Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mette Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mette (Arabic: ميتيه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺖ, Marathi: मेटे, Russian: Метте) has its highest incidence in Germany. It may also be found as a variant: Metté. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mette? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 75,233rd most commonly occurring surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,116,523 people. The last name Mette occurs predominantly in Europe, where 64 percent of Mette reside; 55 percent reside in Western Europe and 42 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Mette is also the 13,264th most prevalent first name internationally, held by 73,795 people.
This surname is most widely held in Germany, where it is borne by 2,697 people, or 1 in 29,850. In Germany Mette is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 39 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 12 percent live and Berlin, where 11 percent live. Besides Germany this surname occurs in 50 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 18 percent live and France, where 13 percent live.
Mette Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Mette has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Mette surname expanded 603 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 114 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Mette Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Mette are 9.8% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 56.57% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Mette earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 26.95% less than the national average, earning €21,936 per year; in Norway they earn 114.69% more than the national average, earning 742,994 kr per year; in United States they earn 9.62% more than the national average, earning $47,302 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.38% more than the national average, earning $53,348 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mette Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mette in the Marathi language | ||
| मेटे | mete | - |
| Mette in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺖ | mt | 36.36 |
| ﻣﺘﻪ | mth | 27.27 |
| ﺍﻣﺖ | amt | 22.73 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﺖ | amyt | 4.55 |
| ﺍﻣﺘﻮ | amtw | 4.55 |
| ﺃﻣﺘﻪ | amth | 4.55 |
| Mette in the Russian language | ||
| Метте | mette | - |
| Mette in the Arabic language | ||
| ميتيه | mytyh | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Mette
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