Zale Surname
Approximately 4,608 people bear this surname
Zale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,176 | 1:308,213 | 28,304 |
| Burkina Faso | 620 | 1:29,600 | 1,717 |
| Iran | 594 | 1:129,264 | 11,842 |
| Malawi | 366 | 1:46,774 | 6,615 |
| Israel | 302 | 1:28,337 | 4,092 |
| Ivory Coast | 249 | 1:92,656 | 4,869 |
| DR Congo | 239 | 1:309,120 | 27,984 |
| India | 197 | 1:3,893,733 | 106,713 |
| Latvia | 146 | 1:14,041 | 2,091 |
| Solomon Islands | 134 | 1:4,329 | 523 |
| Benin | 128 | 1:80,747 | 9,550 |
| Tanzania | 73 | 1:725,228 | 41,094 |
| Papua New Guinea | 67 | 1:121,697 | 16,585 |
| Canada | 61 | 1:604,026 | 49,778 |
| Cameroon | 44 | 1:472,024 | 38,779 |
| South Africa | 42 | 1:1,289,945 | 71,309 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 1:1,228,926 | 53,021 |
| Mauritania | 20 | 1:204,743 | 10,209 |
| Lesotho | 15 | 1:135,504 | 12,442 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 1:1,403,476 | 76,064 |
| Kenya | 8 | 1:5,772,488 | 50,256 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 1:3,349,249 | 20,155 |
| Senegal | 7 | 1:2,082,763 | 4,662 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 32 | 1:1,569,334 | 83,036 |
The alternate forms: Žale (19), Zāle (5) & Zalé (2) are calculated separately.
Zale (4,435) may also be a first name.
Zale Demographics
Average Male Zale Height
175.8 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Zale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zale Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zale (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺯﺍﻝ, Hindi: जाले, Russian: Зале) is most common in The United States. It may also appear in the variant forms: Žale, Zāle or Zalé. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Zale? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 102,285th most widespread last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,581,499 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 39 percent of Zale live; 21 percent live in West Africa and 19 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 103,477th most frequently used first name on earth, held by 4,435 people.
Zale is most numerous in The United States, where it is held by 1,176 people, or 1 in 308,213. In The United States Zale is mostly concentrated in: Texas, where 11 percent are found, Illinois, where 9 percent are found and Michigan, where 6 percent are found. Not including The United States Zale exists in 47 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 13 percent are found and Iran, where 13 percent are found.
Zale Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Zale has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Zale surname increased 3,675 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Zale Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Zale surname are 3.95% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 50.72% registered with the party.
The amount Zale earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 60.05% less than the national average, earning R 94,932 per year; in United States they earn 16.33% more than the national average, earning $50,196 USD per year and in Canada they earn 44.64% more than the national average, earning $71,862 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zale in the Hindi language | ||
| जाले | jale | - |
| Zale in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺯﺍﻝ | zal | 50 |
| ﺯﺍﻻ | zala | 25 |
| ﺯﺍﻟﻪ | zalh | 25 |
| Zale in the Russian language | ||
| Зале | zale | - |
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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 Zale
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