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 surname Faleye is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Faleye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Faleye is the 32,177th most frequently held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 439,963 people. The last name Faleye occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Faleye live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Faleye is also the 282,418th most prevalent first name worldwide It is held by 836 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 16,228 people, or 1 in 10,916. In Nigeria Faleye is most frequent in: Lagos, where 29 percent are found, Osun, where 16 percent are found and Ekiti, where 15 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria it occurs in 19 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 1 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
Faleye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Faleye last name is predominantly Christian (96%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding 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 political 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
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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 Faleye
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