Wessey Surname
Approximately 122 people bear this surname
Wessey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 91 | 1:1,946,624 | 68,955 |
| Liberia | 24 | 1:183,689 | 12,460 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,247,739 | 24,719 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Wessey (13) may also be a first name.
Wessey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wessey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wessey occurs most in Nigeria. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wessey? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,637,889th most widely held family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 59,733,983 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Wessey live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Wessey is also the 3,159,357th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 13 people.
This surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 91 people, or 1 in 1,946,624. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Delta, where 58 percent live, Sokoto, where 20 percent live and Bayelsa, where 11 percent live. Beside Nigeria this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 20 percent live and The United States, where 3 percent live.
Wessey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wessey has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wessey last name contracted 33 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Wessey
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