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
Yiğit is found in Turkey more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yiğit? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,694th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 47,928 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 88 percent of Yiğit reside; 88 percent reside in West Asia and 88 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 53,620th most widely held given name at a global level. It is borne by 12,173 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Turkey, where it is held by 151,680 people, or 1 in 513. In Turkey Yiğit is most frequent in: Istanbul Province, where 16 percent are found, Ankara Province, where 7 percent are found and Bursa Province, where 4 percent are found. Other than Turkey it exists in 18 countries. It also occurs 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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