Yenge Surname
Approximately 4,650 people bear this surname
Yenge Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 3,188 | 1:23,174 | 2,928 |
| South Africa | 509 | 1:106,439 | 12,833 |
| Nigeria | 477 | 1:371,368 | 19,809 |
| Cameroon | 318 | 1:65,312 | 8,281 |
| India | 76 | 1:10,092,966 | 194,472 |
| Zambia | 21 | 1:754,758 | 27,278 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| Turkey | 5 | 1:15,564,284 | 149,633 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:32,656 | 2,283 |
The alternate forms: Yengé (1) are calculated separately.
Yenge (400) may also be a first name.
Yenge Demographics
Average Yenge Salary in
South Africa
R 110,628
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Yenge Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yenge Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yenge (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻨﺞ, Marathi: येणगे) occurs most in The DR Congo. It can also occur as a variant: Yengé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yenge? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 101,545th most commonly used surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,567,214 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Yenge are found; 75 percent are found in Central Africa and 75 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 431,593rd most frequently occurring forename on earth, held by 400 people.
Yenge is most frequently used in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 3,188 people, or 1 in 23,174. Other than The DR Congo this surname occurs in 25 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 11 percent reside and Nigeria, where 10 percent reside.
Yenge Last Name Statistics demography
Yenge earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 53.45% less than the national average, earning R 110,628 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yenge Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yenge in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻨﺞ | ynj | 76.6 |
| ﻳﻨﺠﻪ | ynjh | 23.4 |
| Yenge in the Marathi language | ||
| येणगे | yenage | 53.33 |
| येनगे | yenage | 24.44 |
| यगे | yage | 15.56 |
| यनगे | yanage | 4.44 |
| येणगेानोषा | yenageanosa | 2.22 |
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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 Yenge
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