Dessay Surname
Approximately 398 people bear this surname
Dessay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 386 | 1:172,080 | 26,779 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Dessay (31) may also be a first name.
Dessay Demographics
Dessay Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Dessay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dessay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dessay is held by more people in France than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dessay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 728,955th most common family name globally, held by around 1 in 18,310,417 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 92 percent of Dessay are found; 92 percent are found in Western Europe and 91 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. Dessay is also the 1,874,099th most widely held given name globally. It is borne by 31 people.
This last name is most common in France, where it is borne by 386 people, or 1 in 172,080. In France it is primarily concentrated in: Centre-Val de Loire, where 48 percent are found, Normandy, where 13 percent are found and Île-de-France, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account France this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 1 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
Dessay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Dessay has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Dessay last name expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Dessay Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
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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 Dessay
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