Yiğit Surname
Approximately 152,051 people bear this surname
Yiğit Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 151,680 | 1:513 | 52 |
| Northern Cyprus | 318 | 1:1,003 | 73 |
| United States | 31 | 1:11,692,224 | 454,091 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Yiğit (12,173) may also be a first name.
Yiğit Demographics
Average Male Yiğit Height
174.05 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Yiğit Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yiğit Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yiğit is found most frequently in Turkey. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yiğit? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,694th most commonly occurring last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 47,928 people. The last name Yiğit is predominantly found in Asia, where 88 percent of Yiğit are found; 88 percent are found in West Asia and 88 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 53,620th most numerous first name at a global level. It is borne by 12,173 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Turkey, where it is held by 151,680 people, or 1 in 513. In Turkey Yiğit is most prevalent in: Istanbul Province, where 16 percent are found, Ankara Province, where 7 percent are found and Bursa Province, where 4 percent are found. Not including Turkey Yiğit is found in 18 countries. It is also found in Northern Cyprus, where 0 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Yiğit
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