Zige Surname
Approximately 403 people bear this surname
Zige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 323 | 1:548,430 | 26,767 |
| India | 36 | 1:21,307,372 | 304,812 |
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Zige (99) may also be a first name.
Zige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zige Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zige (Russian: Зиге) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Zige.
How Common Is The Last Name Zige? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 722,496th most frequently used family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 18,083,240 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 84 percent of Zige live; 80 percent live in West Africa and 80 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Zige is also the 951,070th most frequently used first name throughout the world, held by 99 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 323 people, or 1 in 548,430. In Nigeria Zige is most common in: Bayelsa, where 95 percent live, Borno, where 2 percent live and Rivers, where 2 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 11 countries. It is also common in India, where 9 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zige Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zige in the Russian language | ||
| Зиге | zige | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Zige
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