Downly Surname
Approximately 2 people bear this surname
Downly Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| 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 | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Downly Demographics
Downly Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Downly Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Downly Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Downly is most common in South Africa. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Downly? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 11,742,229th most frequently used family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 50 percent of Downly live; 50 percent live in Southern Africa and 50 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is carried by 1 people, or 1 in 54,177,704. In South Africa Downly is mostly concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 100 percent are found. Besides South Africa this surname occurs in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 50 percent are found.
Downly Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Downly has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Downly last name decreased 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Downly Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Downly last name 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 Downly
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