Meyaba Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Meyaba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 85 | 1:48,175 | 3,569 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Meyaba (12) may also be a first name.
Meyaba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meyaba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Meyaba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻴﺎﺏ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meyaba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,894,523rd most frequently occurring family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 75,911,937 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Meyaba are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 89 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Meyaba is also the 3,306,491st most commonly occurring first name at a global level, held by 12 people.
The last name Meyaba is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 85 people, or 1 in 48,175. In Mauritania Meyaba is mostly concentrated in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 40 percent live, Assaba Region, where 33 percent live and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 12 percent live. Apart from Mauritania it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 10 percent live and Cameroon, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meyaba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meyaba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻴﺎﺏ | myab | 54.17 |
| ﻣﻴﺎﺑﻪ | myabh | 37.5 |
| ﻣﻴﺎﺑﻲ | myaby | 4.17 |
| ﻣﻴﺎﺑﻰ | myaby | 4.17 |
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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 Meyaba
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