Zegba Surname
Approximately 447 people bear this surname
Zegba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 325 | 1:70,988 | 3,981 |
| DR Congo | 116 | 1:636,893 | 47,292 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Zegba (70) may also be a first name.
Zegba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zegba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zegba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺯﻗﺐ) is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Zegba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 669,375th most numerous family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 16,303,235 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 88 percent of Zegba live; 62 percent live in West Africa and 61 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Zegba is also the 1,162,016th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 70 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 325 people, or 1 in 70,988. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 73 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 16 percent reside and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 8 percent reside. Besides The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 26 percent reside and Algeria, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zegba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zegba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺯﻗﺐ | zqb | - |
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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 Zegba
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