Yege Surname
Approximately 297 people bear this surname
Yege Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republic | 100 | 1:104,329 | 4,466 |
| Turkey | 69 | 1:1,127,847 | 48,960 |
| Nigeria | 40 | 1:4,428,569 | 120,862 |
| Argentina | 24 | 1:1,780,976 | 92,783 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Iran | 7 | 1:10,968,932 | 186,522 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Yege (170) may also be a first name.
Yege Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yege Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yege (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻨﺞ, Marathi: येगे) is more frequently found in The Dominican Republic than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yege? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 899,940th most frequently occurring family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 24,537,192 people. The last name Yege occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 43 percent of Yege are found; 34 percent are found in Caribbean and 34 percent are found in Hispano-Caribbean. Yege is also the 701,320th most commonly used forename globally It is held by 170 people.
The last name is most widespread in The Dominican Republic, where it is held by 100 people, or 1 in 104,329. Not including The Dominican Republic this surname occurs in 16 countries. It also occurs in Turkey, where 23 percent live and Nigeria, where 13 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yege Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yege in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻨﺞ | ynj | - |
| Yege in the Marathi language | ||
| येगे | yege | - |
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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 Yege
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