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 found most frequently in Nigeria. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ayeyi? popularity and diffusion
Ayeyi is the 691,116th most commonly used family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 17,026,976 people. Ayeyi occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ayeyi live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,523,061st most frequent first name worldwide, held by 19 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 383 people, or 1 in 462,514. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Ondo, where 72 percent reside, Lagos, where 12 percent reside and Ogun, where 6 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria Ayeyi is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 7 percent reside and Argentina, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Ayeyi
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