Delahy Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Delahy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Delahy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Delahy Come From? nationality or country of origin
Delahy (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻻﻩ) is borne by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Delahy? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,798,600th most frequently held last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name Delahy occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Delahy are found; 67 percent are found in West Africa and 67 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 227,492. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Tagant Region, where 89 percent are found, Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 6 percent are found and Trarza Region, where 6 percent are found. Without taking into account Mauritania Delahy exists in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 33 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Delahy Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Delahy in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﻻﻩ | dlah | 71.43 |
| ﺩﻻﻫﻲ | dlahy | 28.57 |
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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 Delahy
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