Blackay Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Blackay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 20 | 1:220,427 | 14,169 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
Blackay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Blackay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Blackay is most common in Liberia. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Blackay click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Blackay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,307,654th most commonly held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 347,025,996 people. The surname Blackay occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Blackay live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Anglo-West Africa.
The last name Blackay is most prevalent in Liberia, where it is carried by 20 people, or 1 in 220,427. In Liberia Blackay is mostly concentrated in: Bong County, where 45 percent live, Nimba County, where 30 percent live and Montserrado County, where 25 percent live. Excluding Liberia this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 5 percent live.
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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
- 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 Blackay
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