Obaleye Surname
Approximately 845 people bear this surname
Obaleye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 836 | 1:211,893 | 12,594 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Obaleye (27) may also be a first name.
Obaleye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obaleye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Obaleye is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Obaleye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 412,606th most frequent family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 8,624,315 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Obaleye live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly occurring first name world-wide, borne by 27 people.
It is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 836 people, or 1 in 211,893. In Nigeria Obaleye is primarily concentrated in: Ekiti, where 27 percent live, Osun, where 17 percent live and Lagos, where 17 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent live and Russia, where 0 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 Obaleye
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