Faleye Surname
Approximately 16,564 people bear this surname
Faleye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 16,228 | 1:10,916 | 1,138 |
| Benin | 121 | 1:85,418 | 10,024 |
| England | 112 | 1:497,483 | 31,781 |
| United States | 65 | 1:5,576,291 | 276,051 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1:454,658 | 14,297 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Faleye (836) may also be a first name.
Faleye Demographics
Faleye Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Faleye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Faleye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Faleye is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Faleye.
How Common Is The Last Name Faleye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 32,177th most frequently occurring surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 439,963 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Faleye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 282,418th most commonly occurring first name in the world, borne by 836 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 16,228 people, or 1 in 10,916. In Nigeria Faleye is most numerous in: Lagos, where 29 percent live, Osun, where 16 percent live and Ekiti, where 15 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 19 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 1 percent live and England, where 1 percent live.
Faleye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Faleye last name is predominantly Christian (96%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Faleye surname are 6.56% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 53.33% being registered to vote for the party.
Faleye earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 7.35% more than the national average, earning $46,320 USD per year.
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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 Faleye
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