Moroye Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Moroye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 37 | 1:4,787,642 | 126,894 |
| United States | 26 | 1:13,940,728 | 505,428 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Moroye (34) may also be a first name.
Moroye Demographics
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Moroye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Moroye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Moroye is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Moroye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Moroye is the 2,372,517th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. The last name Moroye occurs mostly in Africa, where 57 percent of Moroye live; 57 percent live in West Africa and 57 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Moroye is also the 1,775,424th most numerous first name throughout the world, borne by 34 people.
The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 37 people, or 1 in 4,787,642. In Nigeria Moroye is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 27 percent reside, Ondo, where 24 percent reside and Lagos, where 19 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 40 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.
Moroye Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Moroye has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Moroye surname expanded 2,600 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Moroye Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Moroye surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 100% being registered with the party.
Moroye earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.76% less than the national average, earning $41,525 USD 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 Moroye
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