Sympathy Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Sympathy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Uganda | 10 | 1:3,903,928 | 93,934 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
Sympathy (1,617) may also be a first name.
Sympathy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sympathy Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sympathy occurs most in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Sympathy click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sympathy? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,957,383rd most frequent family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 291,501,837 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sympathy reside; 56 percent reside in West Africa and 56 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 192,106th most frequently held first name at a global level, held by 1,617 people.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria Sympathy is most common in: Rivers, where 43 percent reside, Abia, where 21 percent reside and Lagos, where 14 percent reside. Other than Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 40 percent reside and Malawi, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Sympathy
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