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
Average Olayemi Salary in
United States
$58,438 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Olayemi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Olayemi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Olayemi is most common in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Olayemi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Olayemi is the 17,570th most numerous surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 231,094 people. Olayemi occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Olayemi live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 17,265th most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 54,145 people.
Olayemi is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 31,296 people, or 1 in 5,660. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Lagos, where 17 percent live, Osun, where 14 percent live and Ogun, where 11 percent live. Barring Nigeria Olayemi is found in 33 countries. It is also found 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 Olayemi last name is chiefly 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
- 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 Olayemi
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