Tesilimi Surname

1,359,010th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 163 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Tesilimi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tesilimi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1581:1,121,15746,146
Benin21:5,167,80184,334
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679

Tesilimi (197) may also be a first name.

Tesilimi Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tesilimi Come From? nationality or country of origin

Tesilimi is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Tesilimi.

How Common Is The Last Name Tesilimi? popularity and diffusion

The surname Tesilimi is the 1,359,010th most frequently held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 44,708,871 people. Tesilimi occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Tesilimi live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 646,152nd most widespread given name worldwide, held by 197 people.

This last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 158 people, or 1 in 1,121,157. In Nigeria Tesilimi is most frequent in: Lagos, where 44 percent live, Ogun, where 27 percent live and Oyo, where 16 percent live. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 1 percent live and The United Arab Emirates, where 1 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
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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 Tesilimi
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