Timoye Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Timoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Timoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Timoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Timoye is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Timoye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,063,924th most commonly occurring family name on earth, held by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Timoye live; 90 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 19,682,529. In Nigeria Timoye is primarily found in: Ondo, where 67 percent live, Lagos, where 22 percent live and Bayelsa, where 11 percent live. Not including Nigeria it occurs in one country. It is also found in Kenya, where 10 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
- 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 Timoye
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