Hekay Surname
Approximately 6 people bear this surname
Hekay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Hekay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hekay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hekay (Marathi: हेकाय) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hekay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hekay is the 7,593,402nd most widespread surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. Hekay is mostly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Hekay live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Hekay is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 3 people, or 1 in 59,047,586. In Nigeria Hekay is most numerous in: Rivers, where 100 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 17 percent are found and South Africa, where 17 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hekay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hekay in the Marathi language | ||
| हेकाय | hekaya | - |
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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 Hekay
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