Medoye Surname
Approximately 472 people bear this surname
Medoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 466 | 1:380,135 | 20,197 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
Medoye (15) may also be a first name.
Medoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Medoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Medoye occurs most in Nigeria. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Medoye.
How Common Is The Last Name Medoye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 642,991st most widely held family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 15,439,716 people. Medoye occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Medoye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most commonly used forename on earth It is held by 15 people.
Medoye is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 466 people, or 1 in 380,135. In Nigeria Medoye is most frequent in: Ondo, where 51 percent live, Lagos, where 27 percent live and Delta, where 9 percent live. Outside of Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent live.
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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 Medoye
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