Olayemi Surname
Approximately 31,535 people bear this surname
Olayemi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 31,296 | 1:5,660 | 708 |
| England | 114 | 1:488,755 | 31,416 |
| United States | 41 | 1:8,840,462 | 379,649 |
| Ireland | 19 | 1:247,839 | 9,475 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Iceland | 6 | 1:63,348 | 4,218 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Olayemi (54,145) may also be a first name.
Olayemi Demographics
Olayemi Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Olayemi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Olayemi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Olayemi occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Olayemi? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 17,570th most frequently held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 231,094 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Olayemi are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Olayemi is also the 17,265th most frequently used given name worldwide It is held by 54,145 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 31,296 people, or 1 in 5,660. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Lagos, where 17 percent live, Osun, where 14 percent live and Ogun, where 11 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname is found in 33 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
Olayemi Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally Christian (81%) in Nigeria.
The amount Olayemi earn in different countries varies greatly. In United States they earn 35.43% more than the national average, earning $58,438 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.99% less than the national average, earning $40,247 CAD 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 Olayemi
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