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 may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Zeye.
How Common Is The Last Name Zeye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 280,304th most commonly occurring surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 5,288,495 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Zeye live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 722,635th most frequent given name in the world, held by 161 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 1,015 people, or 1 in 18,081. In Burkina Faso it is primarily found in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 88 percent live, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 5 percent live and Centre Region, where 5 percent live. Besides Burkina Faso this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs 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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