Amaye Surname
Approximately 643 people bear this surname
Amaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 294 | 1:602,526 | 28,821 |
| France | 103 | 1:644,881 | 83,663 |
| Benin | 78 | 1:132,508 | 14,244 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Indonesia | 27 | 1:4,898,118 | 234,077 |
| Paraguay | 21 | 1:344,607 | 5,239 |
| Iran | 19 | 1:4,041,185 | 108,332 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Amaye (585) may also be a first name.
Amaye Demographics
Average Amaye Salary in
United States
$44,172 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Amaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﻲ, Marathi: अमये) is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amaye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 509,082nd most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 11,333,664 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 85 percent of Amaye live; 61 percent live in West Africa and 59 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Amaye is also the 345,974th most numerous first name internationally It is held by 585 people.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 294 people, or 1 in 602,526. In Nigeria Amaye is most prevalent in: Delta, where 41 percent are found, Rivers, where 21 percent are found and Bayelsa, where 12 percent are found. Barring Nigeria Amaye is found in 22 countries. It is also found in France, where 16 percent are found and Benin, where 12 percent are found.
Amaye Last Name Statistics demography
Amaye earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.37% more than the national average, earning $44,172 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amaye in the Marathi language | ||
| अमये | amaye | 80 |
| आमये | amaye | 20 |
| Amaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﻲ | amy | 50 |
| ﺍﻋﻤﺎﻱ | amay | 50 |
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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 Amaye
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