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
Glele is found most frequently in Benin. It may also appear in the variant forms: Glèlè or Glélé. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Glele? popularity and diffusion
Glele is the 125,350th most frequent last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 2,006,483 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Glele reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 229,692nd most widely held first name worldwide. It is borne by 1,191 people.
The last name Glele is most common in Benin, where it is borne by 3,509 people, or 1 in 2,945. In Benin Glele is mostly found in: Zou Department, where 56 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 22 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 7 percent reside. Not including Benin this last name exists in 21 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent reside and Nigeria, where 1 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 Glele
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