Willbye Surname

2,075,631st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 82 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Willbye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Willbye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England751:742,90741,196
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582

Willbye Last Name Facts

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

Willbye is found most in England. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Willbye? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 2,075,631st most commonly held last name globally, held by around 1 in 88,872,511 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Willbye live; 98 percent live in Northern Europe and 93 percent live in British Isles.

Willbye is most frequently used in England, where it is carried by 75 people, or 1 in 742,907. In England it is primarily concentrated in: Kent, where 21 percent live, Greater London, where 21 percent live and Cambridgeshire, where 13 percent live. Aside from England this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Norway, where 2 percent live and Sweden, where 2 percent live.

Willbye Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Willbye has changed through the years. In England the share of the population with the last name grew 1,071 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Weilbye8633/
Willbie864/
Wellbye861/
Willbier8016/
Willbjer803/
Wilbie779/
Bilbie62660/
Welbie6252/
Bilbiey571/
Bilbije571/
Wöhlbier53206/
Wlvie501/

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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 Willbye
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