Doyen Surname
Approximately 9,871 people bear this surname
Doyen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 5,568 | 1:11,929 | 1,178 |
| Belgium | 2,117 | 1:5,431 | 648 |
| United States | 1,182 | 1:306,649 | 28,191 |
| Germany | 216 | 1:372,710 | 35,308 |
| Haiti | 214 | 1:49,925 | 3,023 |
| Liberia | 107 | 1:41,201 | 3,786 |
| Netherlands | 75 | 1:225,162 | 29,957 |
| Argentina | 51 | 1:838,106 | 54,910 |
| Thailand | 43 | 1:1,642,752 | 213,663 |
| Turkey | 39 | 1:1,995,421 | 69,208 |
| Panama | 32 | 1:122,258 | 4,322 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| England | 26 | 1:2,143,002 | 82,017 |
| Switzerland | 23 | 1:357,083 | 27,273 |
| New Caledonia | 21 | 1:13,153 | 3,514 |
| French Polynesia | 18 | 1:15,600 | 3,086 |
| Canada | 14 | 1:2,631,828 | 153,264 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Spain | 12 | 1:3,896,003 | 72,236 |
| Brazil | 8 | 1:26,759,292 | 405,030 |
| Monaco | 7 | 1:5,295 | 668 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Jamaica | 3 | 1:956,649 | 10,513 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 142 | 1:353,653 | 27,017 |
The alternate forms: Dóyen (1) are calculated separately.
Doyen (3,004) may also be a first name.
Doyen Demographics
Average Male Doyen Height
174.54 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Doyen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Doyen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Doyen (Tibetan: རྡོ་ཡོན།) is carried by more people in France than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as: Dóyen. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Doyen? popularity and diffusion
The surname Doyen is the 51,887th most numerous family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 738,278 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 81 percent of Doyen live; 80 percent live in Western Europe and 75 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 132,043rd most common first name worldwide, held by 3,004 people.
The surname Doyen is most frequently occurring in France, where it is borne by 5,568 people, or 1 in 11,929. In France Doyen is mostly concentrated in: Grand Est, where 21 percent live, Île-de-France, where 20 percent live and Hauts-de-France, where 15 percent live. Besides France it occurs in 52 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 21 percent live and The United States, where 12 percent live.
Doyen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Doyen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Doyen surname increased 832 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 2,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Doyen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Doyen surname are 8.49% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.26% being registered with the political party.
The amount Doyen earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 2.22% less than the national average, earning $42,192 USD per year and in Canada they earn 27.2% less than the national average, earning $36,169 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Doyen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Doyen in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྡོ་ཡོན། | doyön | 33.33 |
| རྡོ་ཡོན་ | doyön | 33.33 |
| མདོ་ཡོན་ | doyön | 33.33 |
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Doyen Reference & Research
Doyne, Doyen, Doying FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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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 Doyen
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis