Imie Surname
Approximately 203 people bear this surname
Imie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 174 | 1:1,018,062 | 42,870 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Imie (1,821) may also be a first name.
Imie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Imie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Imie is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Imie? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,173,425th most widely held family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 35,899,241 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 90 percent of Imie live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 87 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Imie is also the 178,861st most common first name on earth. It is borne by 1,821 people.
The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 174 people, or 1 in 1,018,062. In Nigeria Imie is most frequent in: Lagos, where 24 percent live, Edo, where 20 percent live and Rivers, where 18 percent live. Beside Nigeria it occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in England, where 3 percent live and Cameroon, where 2 percent live.
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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 Imie
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