Nyee Surname
Approximately 279 people bear this surname
Nyee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 155 | 1:133,994 | 15,044 |
| Malaysia | 41 | 1:719,371 | 33,828 |
| Nigeria | 41 | 1:4,320,555 | 118,938 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Liberia | 4 | 1:1,102,134 | 37,930 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
The alternate forms: Nyée (1) are calculated separately.
Nyee (237) may also be a first name.
Nyee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyee Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nyee is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur as: Nyée. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyee? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 940,398th most frequent last name in the world, held by around 1 in 26,120,236 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 74 percent of Nyee reside; 56 percent reside in Central Africa and 56 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Nyee is also the 581,650th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 237 people.
Nyee is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 155 people, or 1 in 133,994. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Littoral Region, where 49 percent live, Centre Region, where 38 percent live and Northwest Region, where 9 percent live. Barring Cameroon this last name exists in 14 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 15 percent live and Nigeria, where 15 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
- 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
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