Iwalesin Surname
Approximately 261 people bear this surname
Iwalesin Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 256 | 1:691,964 | 32,018 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Iwalesin (40) may also be a first name.
Iwalesin Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Iwalesin Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Iwalesin is most common in Nigeria. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Iwalesin? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 985,740th most prevalent family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 27,921,632 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Iwalesin live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Iwalesin is also the 1,614,485th most frequently held first name worldwide It is held by 40 people.
This surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 256 people, or 1 in 691,964. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Lagos, where 32 percent reside, Osun, where 20 percent reside and Kwara, where 16 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria Iwalesin exists in 3 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent reside and South Africa, 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
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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
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