Gençay Surname
Approximately 5,529 people bear this surname
Gençay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 5,517 | 1:14,106 | 1,771 |
| Northern Cyprus | 8 | 1:39,876 | 7,494 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Gencay (74) are calculated separately.
Gençay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gençay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gençay is more frequently found in Turkey than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Gencay. Click here for further potential spellings of Gençay.
How Common Is The Last Name Gençay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 87,068th most commonly held surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 1,318,059 people. The surname Gençay is predominantly found in Asia, where 82 percent of Gençay live; 82 percent live in West Asia and 82 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Turkey, where it is borne by 5,517 people, or 1 in 14,106. In Turkey it is mostly concentrated in: Istanbul Province, where 20 percent reside, Ankara Province, where 9 percent reside and Izmir Province, where 6 percent reside. Beside Turkey this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Northern Cyprus, where 0 percent reside and Algeria, 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 Gençay
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