Lamptey Surname
Approximately 69,218 people bear this surname
Lamptey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 67,540 | 1:400 | 46 |
| England | 599 | 1:93,018 | 9,976 |
| United States | 555 | 1:653,079 | 52,340 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Nigeria | 51 | 1:3,473,387 | 102,969 |
| Jamaica | 45 | 1:63,777 | 3,321 |
| Liberia | 42 | 1:104,965 | 8,284 |
| Germany | 41 | 1:1,963,548 | 108,338 |
| Canada | 31 | 1:1,188,567 | 86,017 |
| Netherlands | 18 | 1:938,176 | 63,634 |
| Sweden | 15 | 1:656,450 | 48,545 |
| Norway | 11 | 1:467,481 | 39,375 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Serbia | 9 | 1:793,883 | 26,061 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Northern Ireland | 5 | 1:369,007 | 15,220 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1:681,988 | 17,017 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Lamptey (1,478) may also be a first name.
Lamptey Demographics
Average Male Lamptey Height
175.12 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Lamptey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lamptey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lamptey occurs more in Ghana more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lamptey? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,224th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 105,284 people. Lamptey is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Lamptey reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 202,414th most commonly used first name worldwide It is held by 1,478 people.
This surname is most widely held in Ghana, where it is carried by 67,540 people, or 1 in 400. Outside of Ghana this last name occurs in 45 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Lamptey Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Lamptey surname are 40.89% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 94.12% registered with the party.
The amount Lamptey earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 18.64% less than the national average, earning 281,578 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 47.83% more than the national average, earning R 351,312 per year; in United States they earn 3.08% more than the national average, earning $44,476 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.84% more than the national average, earning $54,572 CAD 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 Lamptey
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