Niaye Surname
Approximately 1,540 people bear this surname
Niaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,510 | 1:15,279 | 1,203 |
| Senegal | 17 | 1:857,608 | 2,905 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Niaye (841) may also be a first name.
Niaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Niaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Niaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻧﻴﺎﻱ) occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Niaye.
How Common Is The Last Name Niaye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Niaye is the 256,086th most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 4,732,173 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Niaye live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 47 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 281,453rd most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 841 people.
The surname is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,510 people, or 1 in 15,279. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Woroba District, where 47 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 21 percent reside and Bas-Sassandra District, where 12 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Senegal, where 1 percent reside and The Congo, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Niaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Niaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻧﻴﺎﻱ | anyay | 66.67 |
| ﺍﻧﻴﺎﻳﻰ | anyayy | 33.33 |
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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 Niaye
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