Jolayemi Surname

73,114th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,737 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Jolayemi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Jolayemi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria6,6251:26,7392,298
United States351:10,355,970420,657
England291:1,921,31276,208
Thailand181:3,924,352328,346
Qatar61:393,00055,922
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
Iceland31:126,6975,403
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187

Jolayemi (857) may also be a first name.

Jolayemi Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Jolayemi Come From? nationality or country of origin

Jolayemi is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Jolayemi.

How Common Is The Last Name Jolayemi? popularity and diffusion

The surname Jolayemi is the 73,114th most prevalent surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 1,081,720 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Jolayemi reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Jolayemi is also the 278,206th most commonly used first name throughout the world, borne by 857 people.

The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 6,625 people, or 1 in 26,739. In Nigeria Jolayemi is mostly found in: Kwara, where 28 percent live, Lagos, where 19 percent live and Osun, where 18 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this surname occurs in 15 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.

Jolayemi Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Jolayemi earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 69.32% more than the national average, earning 585,975 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 24.36% more than the national average, earning R 295,524 per year and in United States they earn 35.91% more than the national average, earning $58,644 USD per year.

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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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Jolayemi
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