Attay Surname
Approximately 574 people bear this surname
Attay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 427 | 1:215,306 | 15,336 |
| Ivory Coast | 40 | 1:576,781 | 17,373 |
| Niger | 27 | 1:710,815 | 16,981 |
| Turkey | 26 | 1:2,993,132 | 85,930 |
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Attay (85) may also be a first name.
Attay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Attay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Attay (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻄﺎﻱ, Russian: Аттай, Tibetan: ཨ་ཏེ།) has its highest incidence in Egypt. It may appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Attay? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 554,992nd most commonly used last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 12,696,073 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 87 percent of Attay live; 74 percent live in North Africa and 74 percent live in Arabic North Africa. Attay is also the 1,039,322nd most widely held forename worldwide. It is borne by 85 people.
This last name is most widely held in Egypt, where it is held by 427 people, or 1 in 215,306. Outside of Egypt it is found in 23 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 7 percent live and Niger, where 5 percent live.
Attay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Attay has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname fell 67 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 67 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Attay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Attay in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻄﺎﻱ | tay | - |
| Attay in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨ་ཏེ། | até | - |
| Attay in the Russian language | ||
| Аттай | attaj | - |
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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 Attay
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