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
Folayemi is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Folayemi? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 536,820th most widely held family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 12,145,910 people. The last name Folayemi occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Folayemi reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Folayemi is also the 93,816th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 5,205 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 593 people, or 1 in 298,723. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Ondo, where 38 percent reside, Osun, where 20 percent reside and Kogi, where 15 percent reside. Beside Nigeria Folayemi is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent reside and Benin, where 0 percent reside.
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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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