Adoye Surname
Approximately 537 people bear this surname
Adoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 499 | 1:354,996 | 19,137 |
| Benin | 26 | 1:397,523 | 29,143 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Adoye (78) may also be a first name.
Adoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Adoye is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adoye? popularity and diffusion
Adoye is the 583,527th most numerous last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,570,849 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Adoye reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Adoye is also the 1,091,646th most common forename in the world. It is borne by 78 people.
The last name Adoye is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 499 people, or 1 in 354,996. In Nigeria it is most common in: Edo, where 28 percent live, Delta, where 19 percent live and Lagos, where 10 percent live. Apart from Nigeria it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 5 percent live and The Ivory Coast, 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 Adoye
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