Yekeye Surname
Approximately 86 people bear this surname
Yekeye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 77 | 1:200,497 | 23,224 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Yekeye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekeye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yekeye is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekeye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,020,555th most widely held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 84,738,906 people. Yekeye is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yekeye are found; 91 percent are found in Southern Africa and 91 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 77 people, or 1 in 200,497. In Zimbabwe Yekeye is most prevalent in: Manicaland Province, where 56 percent are found, Bulawayo Province, where 26 percent are found and Harare Province, where 10 percent are found. Other than Zimbabwe this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 5 percent are found and England, where 2 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 Yekeye
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