Balaÿ Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Balaÿ Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 75 | 1:885,636 | 103,228 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Balay (6,929) are calculated separately.
Balaÿ Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Balaÿ Come From? nationality or country of origin
Balaÿ is found most in France. It may be rendered as a variant: Balay. For other possible spellings of Balaÿ click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Balaÿ? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,091,648th most common last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 89,969,703 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 93 percent of Balaÿ live; 93 percent live in Western Europe and 93 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
This last name is most commonly used in France, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 885,636. In France it is mostly concentrated in: Île-de-France, where 75 percent reside, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 20 percent reside and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 3 percent reside. Besides France this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent reside and Brazil, where 1 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
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