Alkayis Surname
Approximately 522 people bear this surname
Alkayis Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 450 | 1:172,936 | 13,195 |
| Indonesia | 71 | 1:1,862,665 | 118,960 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
The alternate forms: Alkayiş (2) are calculated separately.
Alkayis Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alkayis Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Alkayis is found most in Turkey. It may also appear as a variant: Alkayiş. For other potential spellings of Alkayis click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Alkayis? popularity and diffusion
Alkayis is the 596,518th most widely held last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 13,960,816 people. The surname Alkayis is predominantly found in Asia, where 95 percent of Alkayis reside; 82 percent reside in West Asia and 82 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Turkey, where it is carried by 450 people, or 1 in 172,936. In Turkey Alkayis is most common in: Adiyaman Province, where 76 percent live, Mersin Province, where 13 percent live and Istanbul Province, where 5 percent live. Outside of Turkey this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 14 percent live and Qatar, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Alkayis
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