Glele Surname
Approximately 3,632 people bear this surname
Glele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 3,509 | 1:2,945 | 357 |
| Ivory Coast | 35 | 1:659,178 | 18,915 |
| Nigeria | 28 | 1:6,326,527 | 151,186 |
| France | 28 | 1:2,372,240 | 182,981 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Djibouti | 4 | 1:228,733 | 966 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Glèlè (14) & Glélé (3) are calculated separately.
Glele (1,191) may also be a first name.
Glele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Glele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Glele is found most in Benin. It can also occur in the variant forms: Glèlè or Glélé. Click here for other potential spellings of Glele.
How Common Is The Last Name Glele? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 125,350th most frequently used family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 2,006,483 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Glele are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Glele is also the 229,692nd most common forename at a global level. It is borne by 1,191 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Benin, where it is carried by 3,509 people, or 1 in 2,945. In Benin it is mostly found in: Zou Department, where 56 percent are found, Littoral Department, where 22 percent are found and Atlantique Department, where 7 percent are found. Not including Benin this last name exists in 21 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Nigeria, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Glele
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