Zeye Surname
Approximately 1,378 people bear this surname
Zeye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,015 | 1:18,081 | 1,302 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| Zimbabwe | 12 | 1:1,286,520 | 73,455 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Zeye (161) may also be a first name.
Zeye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zeye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Zeye (Arabic: زايه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺰﻱ) is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Zeye.
How Common Is The Last Name Zeye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 280,304th most frequently used last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 5,288,495 people. The surname Zeye occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Zeye live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Mande Africa. Zeye is also the 722,635th most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 161 people.
The surname Zeye is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 1,015 people, or 1 in 18,081. In Burkina Faso Zeye is most numerous in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 88 percent live, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 5 percent live and Centre Region, where 5 percent live. Outside of Burkina Faso Zeye is found in 15 countries. It is also common in Ghana, where 20 percent live and The DR Congo, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zeye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zeye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺰﻱ | alzy | 36.36 |
| ﺯﻳﻪ | zyh | 33.33 |
| ﺯﻱ | zy | 12.12 |
| ﺯﻳﺔ | zyt | 6.06 |
| ﺍﻟﺰﻳﻪ | alzyh | 6.06 |
| ﺍﺯﻱ | azy | 3.03 |
| ﺍﻟﺰﻳﺔ | alzyt | 3.03 |
| Zeye in the Arabic language | ||
| زايه | zayh | - |
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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 Zeye
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