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 last name Byaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺑﻴﺎﻱ) is most common in Mauritania. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Byaye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 716,247th most frequently held last name globally, held by around 1 in 17,861,632 people. Byaye occurs mostly 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 held given name throughout the world It is held by 20 people.
The surname is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is held by 382 people, or 1 in 10,720. In Mauritania Byaye is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 27 percent are found, Gorgol Region, where 24 percent are found and Trarza Region, where 16 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania this surname occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 4 percent are found and Senegal, where 2 percent are found.
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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