Uleme Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Uleme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 31 | 1:5,714,283 | 142,531 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Uleme (38) may also be a first name.
Uleme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Uleme Come From? nationality or country of origin
Uleme occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Uleme.
How Common Is The Last Name Uleme? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,100,440th most frequently held family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name Uleme is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Uleme reside; 78 percent reside in West Africa and 78 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,662,754th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 38 people.
Uleme is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 31 people, or 1 in 5,714,283. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Cross River, where 52 percent reside, Lagos, where 32 percent reside and Ondo, where 3 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 10 percent reside and Ethiopia, where 3 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
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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 Uleme
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