Fanye Surname
Approximately 1,344 people bear this surname
Fanye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,288 | 1:75,735 | 7,282 |
| Taiwan | 31 | 1:756,282 | 5,404 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Fanye (50) may also be a first name.
Fanye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fanye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Fanye occurs in Ethiopia more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Fanye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 285,960th most commonly occurring surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,422,281 people. Fanye occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Fanye reside; 96 percent reside in East Africa and 96 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Fanye is also the 1,412,538th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 50 people.
The last name Fanye is most frequent in Ethiopia, where it is held by 1,288 people, or 1 in 75,735. Outside of Ethiopia Fanye is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Taiwan, where 2 percent live and China, where 1 percent live.
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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 Fanye
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