Kedeya Surname
Approximately 77 people bear this surname
Kedeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 45 | 1:90,997 | 5,761 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kedeya (18) may also be a first name.
Kedeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kedeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kedeya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺪﻱ, Marathi: केडीया) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kedeya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kedeya is the 2,152,526th most commonly held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 94,643,453 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Kedeya live; 71 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Kedeya is also the 2,608,198th most common first name globally It is held by 18 people.
The surname Kedeya is most commonly occurring in Mauritania, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 90,997. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 33 percent reside, Assaba Region, where 31 percent reside and Tagant Region, where 20 percent reside. Apart from Mauritania this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 22 percent reside and Togo, where 12 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kedeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kedeya in the Marathi language | ||
| केडीया | kediya | - |
| Kedeya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺪﻱ | kdy | 45 |
| ﻛﺪﻳﻪ | kdyh | 30 |
| ﻛﺪﻯ | kdy | 20 |
| ﻛﺪﻳﺎ | kdya | 5 |
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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 Kedeya
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