Yiğitcan Surname
Approximately 652 people bear this surname
Yiğitcan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 623 | 1:124,914 | 10,320 |
| Northern Cyprus | 29 | 1:11,000 | 2,841 |
The alternate forms: Yigitcan (10) are calculated separately.
Yiğitcan (998) may also be a first name.
Yiğitcan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yiğitcan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yiğitcan is found most in Turkey. It may appear as a variant: Yigitcan. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yiğitcan? popularity and diffusion
Yiğitcan is the 503,825th most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 11,177,218 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 90 percent of Yiğitcan live; 90 percent live in West Asia and 90 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands. Yiğitcan is also the 254,712th most widely held forename on earth. It is borne by 998 people.
The surname is most widely held in Turkey, where it is borne by 623 people, or 1 in 124,914. In Turkey Yiğitcan is mostly concentrated in: Malatya Province, where 42 percent reside, Kirikkale Province, where 9 percent reside and Istanbul Province, where 7 percent reside. Beside Turkey Yiğitcan occurs in one country. It also occurs in Northern Cyprus, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yigitcan | 96 | 10 | / |
| Yigit Can | 82 | 1 | / |
| Yiğitdoğan | 78 | 184 | / |
| Iican | 77 | 1 | / |
| Yigitkan | 75 | 188 | / |
| Yigit Aycan | 74 | 1 | / |
| Yiğittekin | 67 | 1,075 | / |
| Yiğit Güney | 63 | 1 | / |
| Yigittekin | 56 | 3 | / |
| Igitkhaian | 56 | 1 | / |
| Yigit Koyun | 53 | 1 | / |
| Ogidigan | 50 | 22 | / |
| Yagitkin | 50 | 1 | / |
| Agitgani | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Yiğitcan
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