Ajeleye Surname
Approximately 309 people bear this surname
Ajeleye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 302 | 1:586,565 | 28,271 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
Ajeleye (14) may also be a first name.
Ajeleye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ajeleye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ajeleye occurs most in Nigeria. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ajeleye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 874,560th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 23,584,291 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ajeleye reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ajeleye is also the 3,024,661st most frequently occurring first name in the world It is held by 14 people.
It is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 302 people, or 1 in 586,565. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Oyo, where 79 percent live, Lagos, where 11 percent live and Ogun, where 4 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name exists in one country. It is also found in The United States, 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 Ajeleye
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