Iyane Surname
Approximately 528 people bear this surname
Iyane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 465 | 1:158,881 | 16,459 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Iyane (129) may also be a first name.
Iyane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Iyane Come From? nationality or country of origin
Iyane is more frequently found in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Iyane? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 590,896th most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 13,802,170 people. The last name Iyane is predominantly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Iyane live; 88 percent live in Central Africa and 88 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Iyane is also the 818,356th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 129 people.
This surname is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 465 people, or 1 in 158,881. Other than The DR Congo Iyane occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 5 percent live and Nigeria, where 3 percent live.
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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 Iyane
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