Galaye Surname
Approximately 240 people bear this surname
Galaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 227 | 1:52,131 | 675 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Galaye (1,885) may also be a first name.
Galaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Galaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Galaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻼﻱ, Marathi: गलये) is carried by more people in Guinea than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Galaye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Galaye is the 1,044,719th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 30,364,775 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Galaye live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 175,160th most frequently held first name worldwide, borne by 1,885 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Guinea, where it is borne by 227 people, or 1 in 52,131. In Guinea it is most common in: Nzérékoré Region, where 99 percent live, Boké Region, where 0 percent live and Kankan Region, where 0 percent live. Barring Guinea it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent live and Liberia, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Galaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Galaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻼﻱ | klay | 75 |
| ﻛﺎﻻﻱ | kalay | 25 |
| Galaye in the Marathi language | ||
| गलये | galaye | 66.67 |
| गाळये | galaye | 33.33 |
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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 Galaye
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