Gaylah Surname
Approximately 786 people bear this surname
Gaylah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 779 | 1:5,659 | 684 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Gaylah (26) may also be a first name.
Gaylah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gaylah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gaylah is found most frequently in Liberia. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gaylah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 436,668th most frequently used last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 9,271,687 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Gaylah live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Anglo-West Africa. Gaylah is also the 2,084,397th most widely held first name in the world, borne by 26 people.
The last name Gaylah is most frequently used in Liberia, where it is borne by 779 people, or 1 in 5,659. In Liberia Gaylah is most common in: Nimba County, where 59 percent reside, Montserrado County, where 20 percent reside and Grand Gedeh County, where 16 percent reside. Beside Liberia it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, 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 Gaylah
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