Agueya Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Agueya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 29 | 1:141,202 | 7,956 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Agueya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Agueya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Agueya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﻛﻴﻪ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Agueya? popularity and diffusion
Agueya is the 3,432,070th most commonly held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 220,834,725 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Agueya live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
It is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is borne by 29 people, or 1 in 141,202. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 62 percent are found, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 28 percent are found and Hodh Chargui Region, where 7 percent are found. Not including Mauritania Agueya occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 3 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Agueya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Agueya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﻛﻴﻪ | akyh | 72.73 |
| ﺃﻛﻴﻪ | akyh | 18.18 |
| ﺍﻛﻴﻪ | akyh | 9.09 |
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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 Agueya
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