Silete Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Silete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 40 | 1:258,390 | 22,474 |
| Brazil | 14 | 1:15,291,024 | 280,658 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
The alternate forms: Silété (1) are calculated separately.
Silete (160) may also be a first name.
Silete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Silete Come From? nationality or country of origin
Silete is most common in Benin. It can appear as: Silété. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Silete? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,352,516th most frequently held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 77 percent of Silete live; 76 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 725,185th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 160 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Benin, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 258,390. In Benin it is most frequent in: Mono Department, where 50 percent are found, Littoral Department, where 30 percent are found and Atlantique Department, where 15 percent are found. Excluding Benin this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 21 percent are found and Nigeria, where 9 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
- 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 Silete
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