Adeyema Surname
Approximately 291 people bear this surname
Adeyema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 188 | 1:942,249 | 40,456 |
| Benin | 98 | 1:105,465 | 11,876 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
The alternate forms: Adéyéma (1) are calculated separately.
Adeyema (23) may also be a first name.
Adeyema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adeyema Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adeyema is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Adéyéma. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Adeyema? popularity and diffusion
The surname Adeyema is the 912,827th most frequently used last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 25,043,113 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Adeyema reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most frequently used first name globally, borne by 23 people.
The surname is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 188 people, or 1 in 942,249. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Oyo, where 21 percent live, Ondo, where 18 percent live and Osun, where 16 percent live. Not including Nigeria Adeyema is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 34 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 2 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 Adeyema
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