Kálay Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Kálay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Czechia | 16 | 1:664,592 | 62,292 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
The alternate forms: Kalay (18,828) are calculated separately.
Kálay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kálay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kálay is more commonly found in Czechia than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Kalay. Click here for further possible spellings of Kálay.
How Common Is The Last Name Kálay? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kálay is the 4,427,875th most widespread last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name Kálay is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Kálay are found; 100 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 95 percent are found in West Slavic Europe.
This surname is most commonly used in Czechia, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 664,592. In Czechia Kálay is primarily found in: Moravian-Silesian Region, where 75 percent reside, Vysočina Region, where 19 percent reside and South Moravian Region, where 6 percent reside. Barring Czechia this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Slovakia, where 15 percent reside and Hungary, where 5 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 Kálay
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