Sesay Surname
Approximately 413,212 people bear this surname
Sesay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 384,739 | 1:18 | 2 |
| Liberia | 10,082 | 1:437 | 58 |
| Sudan | 3,920 | 1:9,569 | 1,352 |
| Gambia | 3,823 | 1:503 | 101 |
| Ethiopia | 3,542 | 1:27,540 | 3,358 |
| United States | 2,437 | 1:148,732 | 15,331 |
| Ghana | 1,801 | 1:15,003 | 1,939 |
| England | 1,446 | 1:38,533 | 5,011 |
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Netherlands | 135 | 1:125,090 | 19,566 |
| Canada | 117 | 1:314,920 | 28,951 |
| Spain | 93 | 1:502,710 | 25,213 |
| Australia | 86 | 1:313,904 | 27,145 |
| Nigeria | 69 | 1:2,567,286 | 83,988 |
| Germany | 58 | 1:1,388,025 | 86,120 |
| Sweden | 53 | 1:185,788 | 12,836 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Iraq | 37 | 1:946,531 | 12,381 |
| France | 36 | 1:1,845,076 | 161,051 |
| Belgium | 36 | 1:319,351 | 36,407 |
| Norway | 32 | 1:160,696 | 19,635 |
| Wales | 21 | 1:147,359 | 10,403 |
| Brazil | 16 | 1:13,379,646 | 256,605 |
| Lebanon | 13 | 1:433,622 | 11,952 |
| China | 12 | 1:113,943,464 | 5,994 |
| Italy | 11 | 1:5,559,699 | 110,230 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| Guinea | 9 | 1:1,314,869 | 1,461 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Senegal | 8 | 1:1,822,418 | 4,361 |
| Iceland | 6 | 1:63,348 | 4,218 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:64,439 | 2,137 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
Sesay (1,338) may also be a first name.
Sesay Demographics
Average Sesay Salary in
United States
$42,554 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sesay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sesay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sesay is found most frequently in Sierra Leone. It can be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sesay? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sesay is the 1,303rd most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 17,636 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sesay are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 214,721st most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 1,338 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Sierra Leone, where it is borne by 384,739 people, or 1 in 18. Other than Sierra Leone it is found in 75 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 2 percent reside and Sudan, where 1 percent reside.
Sesay Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Sesay are 40.67% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 93.9% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sesay earn in different countries varies significantly. In Norway they earn 35.44% less than the national average, earning 223,445 kr per year; in United States they earn 1.38% less than the national average, earning $42,554 USD per year and in Canada they earn 28.56% less than the national average, earning $35,492 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 Sesay
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