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
Yekeye occurs in Zimbabwe more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekeye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,020,555th most commonly held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 84,738,906 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Yekeye live; 91 percent live in Southern Africa and 91 percent live 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 primarily concentrated in: Manicaland Province, where 56 percent live, Bulawayo Province, where 26 percent live and Harare Province, where 10 percent live. Barring Zimbabwe this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 5 percent live and England, where 2 percent live.
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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 Yekeye
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