Yegay Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Yegay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
Yegay (40) may also be a first name.
Yegay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yegay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yegay (Tibetan: ཡིད་རྒྱས་) occurs most in Canada. It can also occur as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yegay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,968,613th most commonly held surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The last name Yegay is predominantly found in The Americas, where 50 percent of Yegay are found; 50 percent are found in North America and 50 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Yegay is also the 1,614,485th most common forename globally, held by 40 people.
The last name is most frequent in Canada, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 18,422,796. In Canada Yegay is mostly concentrated in: Ontario, where 100 percent are found. Aside from Canada it occurs in one country. It is also found in Kazakhstan, where 50 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yegay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yegay in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡིད་རྒྱས་ | yigyé | 26.67 |
| ཡིད་རྒྱལ་ | yigyal | 16.67 |
| ཡི་གེ་ | yigé | 16.67 |
| ཡི་གེ། | yigé | 10 |
| ཡི་རྒྱས། | yigyé | 6.67 |
| ཡིད་རྒྱས། | yigyé | 6.67 |
| ཡི་རྒྱས་ | yigyé | 6.67 |
| ཡི་དགེ་ | yigé | 3.33 |
| ཡིད་རྒྱལ། | yigyal | 3.33 |
| ཡེགེ་ | yegé | 3.33 |
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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 Yegay
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