Egye Surname
Approximately 771 people bear this surname
Egye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 770 | 1:230,056 | 13,461 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Egye (182) may also be a first name.
Egye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Egye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Egye is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Egye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 443,157th most numerous surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 9,452,070 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Egye live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 675,152nd most common first name world-wide. It is borne by 182 people.
Egye is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 770 people, or 1 in 230,056. In Nigeria Egye is primarily concentrated in: Nasarawa, where 58 percent live, Benue, where 25 percent live and Kano, where 6 percent live. Aside from Nigeria this surname is found in one country. It is also common in India, 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 Egye
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