Byaye Surname
Approximately 408 people bear this surname
Byaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 382 | 1:10,720 | 1,100 |
| Uganda | 15 | 1:2,602,619 | 75,106 |
| Senegal | 10 | 1:1,457,934 | 3,873 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Byaye (20) may also be a first name.
Byaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Byaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Byaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺑﻴﺎﻱ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Byaye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 716,247th most widespread last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 17,861,632 people. The surname Byaye is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Byaye reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Byaye is also the 2,446,817th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 20 people.
The last name is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 382 people, or 1 in 10,720. In Mauritania it is most common in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 27 percent live, Gorgol Region, where 24 percent live and Trarza Region, where 16 percent live. Not including Mauritania Byaye is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 4 percent live and Senegal, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Byaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Byaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺑﻴﺎﻱ | abyay | 74.76 |
| ﺃﺑﻴﺎﻱ | abyay | 16.5 |
| ﺑﻴﺎﻱ | byay | 3.88 |
| ﺍﺑﻴﺎﻯ | abyay | 3.88 |
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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 Byaye
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