Gweye Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Gweye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 20 | 1:771,912 | 53,776 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Gweye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gweye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gweye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻛﻮﻱ) is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gweye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,882,373rd most widespread family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 280,290,228 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Gweye are found; 81 percent are found in Southern Africa and 81 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 20 people, or 1 in 771,912. In Zimbabwe Gweye is primarily concentrated in: Masvingo Province, where 100 percent reside. Barring Zimbabwe it exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 4 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gweye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gweye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻛﻮﻱ | akwy | 40 |
| ﺍﻗﻮﻳﻪ | aqwyh | 40 |
| ﺍﻛﻮﻳﻪ | akwyh | 20 |
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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 Gweye
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