Acheye Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Acheye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 17 | 1:240,874 | 11,443 |
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
Acheye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Acheye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Acheye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﺎﺷﻴﻪ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Acheye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,432,070th most frequently occurring family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 220,834,725 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Acheye live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
This surname is most common in Mauritania, where it is held by 17 people, or 1 in 240,874. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 71 percent live and Brakna Region, where 29 percent live. Excluding Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 48 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Acheye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Acheye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﺎﺷﻴﻪ | ashyh | 75 |
| ﻋﺎﺷﻲ | ashy | 25 |
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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 Acheye
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