Yeyie Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Yeyie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yeyie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yeyie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yeyie is more frequently found in Benin than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of Yeyie click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeyie? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 5,391,485th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The last name Yeyie occurs predominantly in Africa, where 85 percent of Yeyie live; 77 percent live in West Africa and 77 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most prevalent in Benin, where it is borne by 5 people, or 1 in 2,067,120. In Benin Yeyie is primarily concentrated in: Alibori Department, where 100 percent reside. Other than Benin this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Ghana, where 31 percent reside and The United States, where 15 percent reside.
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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 Yeyie
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