Ayeyi Surname
Approximately 428 people bear this surname
Ayeyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 383 | 1:462,514 | 23,465 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| Argentina | 10 | 1:4,274,341 | 152,056 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ayeyi (19) may also be a first name.
Ayeyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ayeyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ayeyi is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Ayeyi click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ayeyi? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 691,116th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 17,026,976 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ayeyi live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ayeyi is also the 2,523,061st most widely held first name at a global level. It is borne by 19 people.
The last name Ayeyi is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 383 people, or 1 in 462,514. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Ondo, where 72 percent live, Lagos, where 12 percent live and Ogun, where 6 percent live. Barring Nigeria this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 7 percent live and Argentina, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Ayeyi
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis