Folayemi Surname
Approximately 600 people bear this surname
Folayemi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 593 | 1:298,723 | 16,689 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Folayemi (5,205) may also be a first name.
Folayemi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Folayemi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Folayemi is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Folayemi? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 536,820th most commonly held last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,145,910 people. The last name Folayemi occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Folayemi are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 93,816th most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 5,205 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 593 people, or 1 in 298,723. In Nigeria Folayemi is mostly concentrated in: Ondo, where 38 percent live, Osun, where 20 percent live and Kogi, where 15 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent live and Benin, where 0 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
- 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 Folayemi
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