Kolye Surname
Approximately 100 people bear this surname
Kolye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| India | 29 | 1:26,450,530 | 346,896 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Kolye (10) may also be a first name.
Kolye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kolye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kolye is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kolye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,849,867th most frequent family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 65 percent of Kolye live; 54 percent live in Central Africa and 54 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kolye is also the 3,684,242nd most frequent first name in the world, borne by 10 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 61 people, or 1 in 340,477. In Cameroon Kolye is most common in: Littoral Region, where 87 percent are found, North Region, where 11 percent are found and West Region, where 2 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 29 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 6 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
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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 Kolye
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