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
The last name Feilly (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻓﻴﻠﻲ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Feilly? popularity and diffusion
The surname Feilly is the 5,812,366th most frequently held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 662,504,174 people. Feilly occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Feilly live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
It is most frequently used 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 reside and Guidimagha Region, where 10 percent reside. Excluding Mauritania Feilly is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 9 percent reside.
Feilly Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Feilly has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Feilly surname decreased 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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