Yekine Surname
Approximately 63 people bear this surname
Yekine Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 56 | 1:3,163,264 | 96,723 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Yekine (96) may also be a first name.
Yekine Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekine Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yekine (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻜﻦ) is most common in Nigeria. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekine? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,414,640th most commonly occurring surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 115,675,332 people. The surname Yekine is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yekine live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yekine is also the 968,397th most widespread first name in the world. It is borne by 96 people.
Yekine is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 56 people, or 1 in 3,163,264. In Nigeria Yekine is most numerous in: Oyo, where 27 percent live, Ekiti, where 25 percent live and Lagos, where 20 percent live. Other than Nigeria this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 6 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yekine Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yekine 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 Yekine
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