Tiemele Surname

90,517th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,295 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Tiemele Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tiemele Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast5,2821:4,368408
France31:22,140,907385,998
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
England21:27,859,030389,889
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Guinea11:11,833,8173,268
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Tiemelé (1) & Tiémélé (10) are calculated separately.

Tiemele (1,874) may also be a first name.

Tiemele Last Name Facts

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

The last name Tiemele is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Tiemelé or Tiémélé. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tiemele? popularity and diffusion

It is the 90,517th most commonly occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,376,307 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 71 percent of Tiemele live; 71 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Tiemele is also the 175,764th most common forename globally, held by 1,874 people.

The surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 5,282 people, or 1 in 4,368. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Lacs District, where 29 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent are found and Comoé District, where 24 percent are found. Apart from The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in France, where 0 percent are found and Belgium, where 0 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
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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 Tiemele
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