Degla Surname
Approximately 3,830 people bear this surname
Degla Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1,630 | 1:6,341 | 866 |
| Togo | 1,575 | 1:4,602 | 829 |
| Egypt | 336 | 1:273,618 | 18,414 |
| Iraq | 110 | 1:318,379 | 6,214 |
| Algeria | 78 | 1:495,276 | 36,958 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| United States | 13 | 1:27,881,456 | 736,413 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Yemen | 3 | 1:8,808,431 | 35,773 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
The alternate forms: Dègla (3) are calculated separately.
Degla (3,873) may also be a first name.
Degla Demographics
Average Degla Salary in
United States
$21,083 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Degla Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Degla Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Degla (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻛﻠﻪ) occurs in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Dègla. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Degla? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 119,893rd most commonly occurring family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,902,754 people. The last name Degla is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Degla reside; 85 percent reside in West Africa and 84 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Degla is also the 112,758th most prevalent given name in the world. It is borne by 3,873 people.
The last name is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 1,630 people, or 1 in 6,341. In Benin it is most frequent in: Collines Department, where 65 percent reside, Zou Department, where 14 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 7 percent reside. Aside from Benin this surname exists in 26 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 41 percent reside and Egypt, where 9 percent reside.
Degla Last Name Statistics demography
Degla earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 51.14% less than the national average, earning $21,083 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Degla Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Degla in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﻛﻠﻪ | dklh | 50 |
| ﺩﻛﻞ | dkl | 50 |
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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 Degla
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