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 last name Yekine (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻜﻦ) occurs most in Nigeria. It can also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekine? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,414,640th most frequently used surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 115,675,332 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yekine are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 968,397th most widely held first name worldwide It is held by 96 people.
Yekine is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 56 people, or 1 in 3,163,264. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Oyo, where 27 percent are found, Ekiti, where 25 percent are found and Lagos, where 20 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria Yekine exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 6 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 2 percent are found.
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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