Sanyie Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Sanyie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Sanyie (120) may also be a first name.
Sanyie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanyie Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sanyie is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanyie? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,843,861st most numerous last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sanyie reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sanyie is also the 852,104th most numerous first name on earth, held by 120 people.
It is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 4,025,972. In Nigeria Sanyie is most common in: Rivers, where 100 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 2 percent live and Ghana, where 2 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 Sanyie
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