Yeya Surname
Approximately 2,613 people bear this surname
Yeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 1,762 | 1:10,892 | 820 |
| Kenya | 302 | 1:152,914 | 12,145 |
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Cameroon | 104 | 1:199,703 | 20,621 |
| India | 69 | 1:11,116,890 | 206,545 |
| Tanzania | 68 | 1:778,553 | 42,281 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Mauritania | 31 | 1:132,092 | 7,581 |
| Burkina Faso | 18 | 1:1,019,561 | 10,177 |
| Nigeria | 18 | 1:9,841,264 | 197,192 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
Yeya (2,741) may also be a first name.
Yeya Demographics
Yeya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Yeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yeya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻴﻪ, Hindi: येया, Russian: Йея) has its highest incidence in Niger. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 165,734th most widely held family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 2,788,957 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Yeya live; 74 percent live in West Africa and 70 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 139,650th most frequently occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 2,741 people.
The last name Yeya is most commonly used in Niger, where it is borne by 1,762 people, or 1 in 10,892. In Niger Yeya is most frequent in: Tillabéri Region, where 93 percent reside, Niamey Capital District, where 4 percent reside and Dosso Region, where 1 percent reside. Other than Niger this surname is found in 27 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 12 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 percent reside.
Yeya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Yeya last name is chiefly Muslim (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yeya in the Hindi language | ||
| येया | yeya | - |
| Yeya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻴﻪ | yyh | 50.45 |
| ﻳﻲ | yy | 27.03 |
| ﻳﻴﺎ | yya | 8.11 |
| ﺍﻳﻴﻪ | ayyh | 3.6 |
| ﻳﻴﻰ | yyy | 2.7 |
| ﻳﻴﺔ | yyt | 1.8 |
| ﻳـﻴﻪ | yyh | 0.9 |
| ﺑﻴﻪ | byh | 0.9 |
| ﻳﺎﻳﻪ | yayh | 0.9 |
| ﻳﺎﻳﺎ | yaya | 0.9 |
| ﺍﻳﻲ | ayy | 0.9 |
| ﻳﺎﻱ | yay | 0.9 |
| ﺃﻳﻴﻪ | ayyh | 0.9 |
| Yeya in the Russian language | ||
| Йея | jea | - |
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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 Yeya
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