Feilly Surname
Approximately 11 people bear this surname
Feilly Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 8 | 1:467,902 | 12,875 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Feilly Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Feilly Come From? nationality or country of origin
Feilly (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻓﻴﻠﻲ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Feilly? popularity and diffusion
The surname Feilly is the 5,812,366th most frequently held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 662,504,174 people. The surname Feilly occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Feilly are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Mauritania, where it is borne by 10 people, or 1 in 409,486. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Inchiri Region, where 90 percent are found and Guidimagha Region, where 10 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 9 percent are found.
Feilly Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Feilly has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Feilly last name fell 87 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Feilly Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Feilly in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻓﻴﻠﻲ | afyly | 60 |
| ﺍﻓﻴﻠﻠﻲ | afylly | 20 |
| ﺇﻓﻴﻠﻲ | afyly | 20 |
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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 Feilly
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