Egdy Surname

8,193,072nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

Egdy Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Egdy Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Mauritania41:1,023,71625,172
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716

Egdy (371) may also be a first name.

Egdy Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Egdy Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Egdy (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻛﺪﻱ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Egdy? popularity and diffusion

It is the 8,193,072nd most frequent family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Egdy are found; 80 percent are found in West Africa and 80 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Egdy is also the 450,877th most common first name worldwide, borne by 371 people.

The last name Egdy is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 4 people, or 1 in 1,023,716. In Mauritania it is primarily concentrated in: Trarza Region, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Tanzania, where 20 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Egdoy8939/
Egday892/
Egddy891/
Egdysz806/
Engday801/
Hegday801/
Agdy75392/
Egde75105/
Egdi7529/
Egdj751/
Ogdy751/
Egda751/
Engdhey735/
Hegde6722,875/
Agday67245/
Yegde67196/
Engde6777/
Igdoy6750/
Agdoy6740/
Egdio6737/
Hegdi6737/
Ogdey6729/
Jegde6724/
Egdes6722/
Hegda6711/
Igday678/
Agdey675/
Eggdi675/
Eagde674/
Yegdi673/
Egder671/
Igddy671/
Ekday671/
Ekdey671/
Ogday671/
Egdge671/
Eqgdi671/
Engdi671/
Ecgda671/
Eigde671/
Egdei671/
Egdea671/
Oegde671/
Egdee671/
Egdit671/
Egdih671/

Egdy Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Egdy in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺃﻛﺪﻱakdy-

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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 Egdy
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