Yeken Surname
Approximately 455 people bear this surname
Yeken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 339 | 1:229,562 | 16,285 |
| Algeria | 61 | 1:633,304 | 39,663 |
| Nigeria | 46 | 1:3,850,930 | 110,272 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yeken (35) may also be a first name.
Yeken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yeken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yeken (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻜﻦ) has its highest incidence in Turkey. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeken? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 660,498th most commonly used family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 16,016,584 people. The last name Yeken occurs mostly in Asia, where 64 percent of Yeken reside; 64 percent reside in West Asia and 64 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 1,744,716th most commonly held first name world-wide, held by 35 people.
The last name Yeken is most frequently used in Turkey, where it is carried by 339 people, or 1 in 229,562. In Turkey it is most numerous in: Sanliurfa Province, where 36 percent live, Antalya Province, where 32 percent live and Istanbul Province, where 15 percent live. Besides Turkey this last name is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 13 percent live and Nigeria, where 10 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yeken Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yeken in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻜﻦ | ykn | - |
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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 Yeken
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