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
The surname Adeyema is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Adéyéma. For other potential spellings of Adeyema click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adeyema? popularity and diffusion
It is the 912,827th most frequently held family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 25,043,113 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Adeyema live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most frequently held first name worldwide, held by 23 people.
It is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 188 people, or 1 in 942,249. In Nigeria Adeyema is most frequent in: Oyo, where 21 percent are found, Ondo, where 18 percent are found and Osun, where 16 percent are found. Other than Nigeria it is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 34 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 2 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
- 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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