Yengen Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Yengen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 34 | 1:5,210,081 | 134,475 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
Yengen (18) may also be a first name.
Yengen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yengen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yengen (Russian: Ыенген) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yengen? popularity and diffusion
Yengen is the 2,944,094th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 165,626,044 people. The surname Yengen occurs mostly in Africa, where 82 percent of Yengen are found; 77 percent are found in West Africa and 77 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yengen is also the 2,608,198th most common first name world-wide It is held by 18 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 34 people, or 1 in 5,210,081. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Benue, where 94 percent live and Lagos, where 6 percent live. Besides Nigeria it is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 18 percent live and Cameroon, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yengen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yengen in the Russian language | ||
| Ыенген | yengen | - |
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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 Yengen
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