Tukuye Surname
Approximately 166 people bear this surname
Tukuye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 157 | 1:132,287 | 14,892 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tukuye (393) may also be a first name.
Tukuye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tukuye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tukuye occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tukuye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tukuye is the 1,343,156th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 43,900,879 people. The last name Tukuye occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Tukuye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 436,161st most numerous first name worldwide. It is borne by 393 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 157 people, or 1 in 132,287. In Cameroon Tukuye is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 98 percent are found and North Region, where 2 percent are found. Not including Cameroon it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 4 percent are found and The DR Congo, 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 Tukuye
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