Igoye Surname
Approximately 170 people bear this surname
Igoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 159 | 1:245,530 | 18,354 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Igoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Igoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Igoye occurs more in Uganda more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Igoye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,321,499th most commonly used family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 42,867,917 people. The surname Igoye is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Igoye are found; 95 percent are found in East Africa and 89 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
Igoye is most widely held in Uganda, where it is carried by 159 people, or 1 in 245,530. In Uganda Igoye is primarily concentrated in: Pallisa District, where 79 percent are found, Mbale District, where 4 percent are found and Kampala District, where 3 percent are found. Not including Uganda it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 5 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Igoye
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