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 also appear in the variant forms: Balay. For other possible spellings of Balaÿ click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Balaÿ? popularity and diffusion
The surname Balaÿ is the 2,091,648th most frequently held last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 89,969,703 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 93 percent of Balaÿ reside; 93 percent reside in Western Europe and 93 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The surname is most commonly held in France, where it is held by 75 people, or 1 in 885,636. In France Balaÿ is mostly concentrated in: Île-de-France, where 75 percent are found, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 20 percent are found and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 3 percent are found. Besides France this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent are found and Brazil, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Balaÿ
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