Cecelia Surname
Approximately 464 people bear this surname
Cecelia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 223 | 1:794,362 | 35,535 |
| Liberia | 79 | 1:55,804 | 4,929 |
| Kosovo | 51 | 1:36,507 | 3,362 |
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | 1:247,082 | 33,879 |
| Indonesia | 29 | 1:4,560,317 | 223,141 |
| Philippines | 17 | 1:5,955,190 | 180,670 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Cecelia (123,456) may also be a first name.
Cecelia Demographics
Cecelia Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Cecelia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cecelia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cecelia is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cecelia? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 651,048th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 15,705,918 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 68 percent of Cecelia are found; 65 percent are found in West Africa and 48 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 8,388th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 123,456 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 223 people, or 1 in 794,362. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Bauchi, where 14 percent are found, Benue, where 9 percent are found and Osun, where 9 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 17 percent are found and Kosovo, where 11 percent are found.
Cecelia Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Cecelia
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