Meyga Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Meyga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 11 | 1:400,776 | 20,681 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Meyga (138) may also be a first name.
Meyga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meyga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meyga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻴﻜﺎ) is found most frequently in Liberia. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meyga? popularity and diffusion
Meyga is the 5,057,639th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 485,836,394 people. The surname Meyga occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Meyga are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 73 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa. Meyga is also the 787,636th most commonly held forename world-wide, borne by 138 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Liberia, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 400,776. In Liberia Meyga is most common in: Maryland County, where 100 percent reside. Aside from Liberia Meyga occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 7 percent reside and Mauritania, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Meyga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Meyga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻴﻜﺎ | myka | 50 |
| ﻣﻴﺠﻪ | myjh | 50 |
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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 Meyga
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