Meyai Surname
Approximately 166 people bear this surname
Meyai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 156 | 1:52,267 | 6,566 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Meyai (56) may also be a first name.
Meyai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meyai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meyai is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Meyai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meyai is the 1,343,156th most commonly used family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 43,900,879 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 94 percent of Meyai live; 94 percent live in Oceania Islands and 94 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,321,957th most common first name globally, borne by 56 people.
It is most common in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 156 people, or 1 in 52,267. In Papua New Guinea Meyai is most prevalent in: East Sepik, where 90 percent live, West Sepik, where 9 percent live and Morobe, where 1 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 4 percent live and Malaysia, where 1 percent live.
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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 Meyai
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