Assagay Surname
Approximately 55 people bear this surname
Assagay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 53 | 1:362,114 | 10,354 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Assagay (16) may also be a first name.
Assagay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Assagay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Assagay is most common in Niger. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Assagay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Assagay is the 2,605,694th most frequently used last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Assagay live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Chadic Africa. Assagay is also the 2,786,762nd most prevalent first name world-wide, held by 16 people.
The surname Assagay is most numerous in Niger, where it is borne by 53 people, or 1 in 362,114. In Niger it is most frequent in: Tillabéri Region, where 92 percent live, Maradi Region, where 2 percent live and Tahoua Region, where 2 percent live. Apart from Niger this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 2 percent live and Cameroon, where 2 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
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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 Assagay
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