Sileye Surname
Approximately 225 people bear this surname
Sileye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 204 | 1:20,073 | 1,815 |
| Senegal | 13 | 1:1,121,488 | 3,334 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
The alternate forms: Silèye (1) are calculated separately.
Sileye (5,208) may also be a first name.
Sileye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sileye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sileye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻠﻲ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Silèye. For other possible spellings of Sileye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sileye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sileye is the 1,092,155th most frequently used last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 32,389,093 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Sileye live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Sileye is also the 93,778th most commonly used first name globally It is held by 5,208 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is held by 204 people, or 1 in 20,073. In Mauritania it is mostly concentrated in: Gorgol Region, where 60 percent reside, Tagant Region, where 15 percent reside and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 12 percent reside. Not including Mauritania this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Senegal, where 6 percent reside and Brazil, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sileye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sileye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻠﻲ | sly | 48.66 |
| ﺳﻴﻠﻲ | syly | 44.99 |
| ﺳﻴﻠﻰ | syly | 3.18 |
| ﺳﻠﻰ | sly | 2.69 |
| ﺳﻮﻟﻲ | swly | 0.49 |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sileye
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