Zegha Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Zegha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 90 | 1:230,767 | 23,017 |
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Zegha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zegha Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zegha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺰﻛﺢ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Zegha.
How Common Is The Last Name Zegha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,736,881st most commonly held family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Zegha reside; 80 percent reside in Central Africa and 80 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname Zegha is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 90 people, or 1 in 230,767. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Centre Region, where 44 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 30 percent are found and West Region, where 19 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 16 percent are found and Algeria, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zegha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zegha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺰﻛﺢ | alzkh | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﺰﻛﺤﻪ | alzkhh | 40 |
| ﺍﻟﺰﻗﺎﺭ | alzqar | 10 |
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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 Zegha
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