Whelam Surname
Approximately 63 people bear this surname
Whelam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 50 | 1:1,114,361 | 53,243 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 12 | 1:369,156 | 13,616 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 14 | 1:1,741,098 | 55,534 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Whelam Demographics
Whelam Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Whelam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Whelam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Whelam occurs more in England more than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Whelam? popularity and diffusion
The surname Whelam is the 2,414,640th most commonly used family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 115,675,332 people. Whelam occurs mostly in Europe, where 81 percent of Whelam reside; 81 percent reside in Northern Europe and 81 percent reside in British Isles.
Whelam is most commonly held in England, where it is borne by 50 people, or 1 in 1,114,361. In England Whelam is most common in: Tyne and Wear, where 96 percent live, Devon, where 2 percent live and Kent, where 2 percent live. Excluding England this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 11 percent live and Australia, where 6 percent live.
Whelam Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Whelam has changed through the years. In England the share of the population with the surname rose 357 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Whelam Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
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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 Whelam
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