van Melo Surname
Approximately 3 people bear this surname
van Melo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
van Melo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Melo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Melo occurs more in Brazil more than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Melo? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 10,311,814th most commonly used last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. van Melo occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 67 percent of van Melo live; 67 percent live in South America and 67 percent live in Luso-South America.
This surname is most widely held in Brazil, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 107,037,166. In Brazil van Melo is most common in: Pará, where 50 percent are found and Sergipe, where 50 percent are found. Besides Brazil this last name exists in one country. It is also found in Belgium, where 33 percent are found.
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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 van Melo
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