Zekiya Surname
Approximately 2,096 people bear this surname
Zekiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,932 | 1:50,490 | 5,344 |
| Zimbabwe | 156 | 1:98,963 | 13,970 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Zekiya (1,025) may also be a first name.
Zekiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zekiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zekiya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺯﻛﻴﻪ, Marathi: झेकीया) is more frequently found in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zekiya? popularity and diffusion
Zekiya is the 199,278th most frequent surname internationally, held by around 1 in 3,476,883 people. The surname Zekiya occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Zekiya reside; 92 percent reside in East Africa and 92 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 250,708th most widely held first name internationally. It is borne by 1,025 people.
The surname is most common in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 1,932 people, or 1 in 50,490. Other than Ethiopia it exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 7 percent are found and Uganda, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zekiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zekiya in the Marathi language | ||
| झेकीया | jhekiya | - |
| Zekiya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺯﻛﻴﻪ | zkyh | 75 |
| ﺯﻛﻴﺔ | zkyt | 25 |
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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 Zekiya
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