Salajevs Surname
Approximately 122 people bear this surname
Salajevs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 116 | 1:17,673 | 2,628 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Šalajevs (4) are calculated separately.
Salajevs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Salajevs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Salajevs is more commonly found in Latvia than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Šalajevs. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Salajevs? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,637,889th most numerous last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 59,733,983 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Salajevs live; 98 percent live in Northern Europe and 95 percent live in Baltic Europe.
This last name is most frequent in Latvia, where it is borne by 116 people, or 1 in 17,673. In Latvia it is most frequent in: Riga Planning Region, where 50 percent are found, Latgale, where 34 percent are found and Semigallia, where 9 percent are found. Excluding Latvia it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in England, where 2 percent are found and Belgium, where 1 percent are found.
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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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