Elgay Surname
Approximately 624 people bear this surname
Elgay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 582 | 1:133,714 | 10,883 |
| Israel | 38 | 1:225,201 | 21,188 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 10 | 1:2,437,537 | 68,340 |
Elgay (20) may also be a first name.
Elgay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Elgay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Elgay occurs most in Turkey. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Elgay? popularity and diffusion
It is the 521,266th most widely held surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 11,678,759 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 88 percent of Elgay are found; 87 percent are found in West Asia and 81 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 2,446,817th most commonly held given name worldwide, held by 20 people.
Elgay is most widely held in Turkey, where it is borne by 582 people, or 1 in 133,714. In Turkey Elgay is most frequent in: Batman Province, where 23 percent reside, Sirnak Province, where 21 percent reside and Istanbul Province, where 19 percent reside. Besides Turkey it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Israel, where 6 percent reside and Russia, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Elgay
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