Monye Surname
Approximately 7,039 people bear this surname
Monye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 4,849 | 1:36,532 | 2,953 |
| South Africa | 1,476 | 1:36,706 | 4,711 |
| Uganda | 169 | 1:231,002 | 17,681 |
| Benin | 108 | 1:95,700 | 10,977 |
| United States | 82 | 1:4,420,231 | 233,612 |
| Kenya | 67 | 1:689,252 | 29,975 |
| India | 64 | 1:11,985,397 | 216,293 |
| Ivory Coast | 62 | 1:372,117 | 13,068 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| England | 34 | 1:1,638,766 | 68,634 |
| Canada | 17 | 1:2,167,388 | 133,872 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
The alternate forms: Monyé (1) are calculated separately.
Monye (507) may also be a first name.
Monye Demographics
Monye Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Monye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Monye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Monye (Marathi: मोनये, Tibetan: མོ་ནི།) is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant: Monyé. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Monye? popularity and diffusion
Monye is the 70,241st most frequently occurring family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 1,035,310 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Monye live; 71 percent live in West Africa and 71 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Monye is also the 375,944th most frequently occurring first name globally. It is borne by 507 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 4,849 people, or 1 in 36,532. In Nigeria Monye is most numerous in: Delta, where 54 percent live, Lagos, where 19 percent live and Edo, where 7 percent live. Outside of Nigeria it exists in 36 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 21 percent live and Uganda, where 2 percent live.
Monye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Monye surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
The amount Monye earn in different countries varies marginally. In South Africa they earn 18.72% less than the national average, earning R 193,164 per year and in United States they earn 15.13% less than the national average, earning $36,621 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Monye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Monye in the Tibetan language | ||
| མོ་ནི། | moni | - |
| Monye in the Marathi language | ||
| मोनये | monaye | 97.73 |
| मोन् | mon | 2.27 |
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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 Monye
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