Hebeye Surname
Approximately 522 people bear this surname
Hebeye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 488 | 1:108,487 | 10,526 |
| Mauritania | 33 | 1:124,087 | 7,273 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Hebeye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hebeye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hebeye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﺒﻲ) has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hebeye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hebeye is the 596,518th most widely held surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 13,960,816 people. Hebeye is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hebeye reside; 93 percent reside in East Africa and 93 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
Hebeye is most prevalent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 488 people, or 1 in 108,487. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Kigoma Region, where 98 percent live and Tabora Region, where 2 percent live. Without taking into account Tanzania Hebeye occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 6 percent live and Cameroon, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hebeye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hebeye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﺒﻲ | hby | 85 |
| ﻫﺒﻰ | hby | 10 |
| ﻫﺒﻴﻲ | hbyy | 5 |
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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 Hebeye
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