Ieve Surname
Approximately 90 people bear this surname
Ieve Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
The alternate forms: Iève (20) are calculated separately.
Ieve (116) may also be a first name.
Ieve Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ieve Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ieve is more commonly found in France than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Iève. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ieve? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ieve is the 1,967,751st most frequently occurring family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 80,972,732 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 74 percent of Ieve reside; 39 percent reside in West Africa and 39 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ieve is also the 868,627th most frequently held first name globally, held by 116 people.
Ieve is most numerous in France, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 1,509,607. In France Ieve is mostly concentrated in: Réunion, where 73 percent reside, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 18 percent reside and Île-de-France, where 9 percent reside. Excluding France it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 39 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 7 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
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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 Ieve
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