Pelagie Surname
Approximately 15,731 people bear this surname
Pelagie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 12,421 | 1:1,094 | 205 |
| Rwanda | 2,481 | 1:4,581 | 1,120 |
| Cameroon | 334 | 1:62,183 | 7,947 |
| Israel | 238 | 1:35,956 | 4,990 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Ivory Coast | 55 | 1:419,477 | 14,125 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Madagascar | 4 | 1:5,912,459 | 5,394 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Pélagie (8) are calculated separately.
Pelagie (126,240) may also be a first name.
Pelagie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pelagie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pelagie is more commonly found in Chad than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Pélagie. Click here for other potential spellings of Pelagie.
How Common Is The Last Name Pelagie? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 33,743rd most frequently occurring last name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 463,260 people. The surname Pelagie occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Pelagie are found; 80 percent are found in West Africa and 79 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 8,224th most prevalent given name world-wide It is held by 126,240 people.
Pelagie is most commonly occurring in Chad, where it is carried by 12,421 people, or 1 in 1,094. Apart from Chad it exists in 26 countries. It also occurs in Rwanda, where 16 percent live and Cameroon, where 2 percent live.
Pelagie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Pelagie has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Pelagie surname expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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