Zayye Surname
Approximately 7 people bear this surname
Zayye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Zayye (36) may also be a first name.
Zayye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zayye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zayye occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Zayye.
How Common Is The Last Name Zayye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 7,117,718th most frequently held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. The surname Zayye occurs predominantly in Africa, where 86 percent of Zayye live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Zayye is also the 1,717,090th most common given name at a global level It is held by 36 people.
The surname Zayye is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 29,523,793. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Zamfara, where 83 percent live and Rivers, where 17 percent live. Besides Nigeria it occurs in one country. It also occurs in India, where 14 percent live.
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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 Zayye
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