Hedya Surname
Approximately 966 people bear this surname
Hedya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 763 | 1:120,492 | 9,804 |
| Mauritania | 193 | 1:21,217 | 1,897 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
Hedya (452) may also be a first name.
Hedya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hedya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hedya (Arabic: هيديا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﺪﻳﻪ, Marathi: हेडया) occurs more in Egypt more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hedya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 371,590th most frequently held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 7,544,043 people. The surname Hedya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Hedya live; 79 percent live in North Africa and 79 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 402,268th most frequently held forename at a global level, held by 452 people.
The last name Hedya is most common in Egypt, where it is borne by 763 people, or 1 in 120,492. Apart from Egypt it exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 20 percent live and Kuwait, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hedya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hedya in the Marathi language | ||
| हेडया | hedaya | - |
| Hedya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﺪﻳﻪ | hdyh | 54.55 |
| ﻫﺪﻱ | hdy | 37.88 |
| ﺍﻫﺪﻱ | ahdy | 3.03 |
| ﻫﺪﻳﺎ | hdya | 3.03 |
| ﻫﺪﻳﺔ | hdyt | 1.52 |
| Hedya in the Arabic language | ||
| هيديا | hydya | - |
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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 Hedya
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