FTDNA Y-tree branch

Haplogroup E-Z1267

E-Z1267 is a branch of the FamilyTreeDNA Y tree with 50 kits that gave a country, counting all sub-branches. It is most common in these samples: Kuwait (0.4% of kits), Saudi Arabia (0.2% of kits). The branch's common ancestor lived about 5,100 years ago: the FTDNA Discover estimate runs from 4,300 to 6,100 years ago. YFull has 44 samples in this branch and dates its common ancestor to 4,800 years ago.

Belongs to the E-M35 branch, which has a note.

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This branch on other trees: FTDNA Discover ↗ · YFull ↗

Branch SNPs: 3 · 25 more at YFull

Z1267, CTS10079, FGC71789

YFull nodes on this branch and their SNPs that FTDNA does not have:

E-FT157365 · E-FT157365 · 4 samples
Y280634
E-FT256855 · E-FT256113 · 2 samples
A29201/Y255151
E-Y183436 · E-BY161041 · 2 samples
Y183414
E-CTS2297 · E-CTS2297 · 1 sample
Y223112
E-FGC53544 · E-FGC71800
FGC85411, FT232757
E-FT70915 · E-FT70915
A33183
E-Y349946 · E-FTC47690
FTC47373, FTC47412, FT261341, FTC47522, FTC47615, FTC47632, FTC47790, FTC47801, Y349946, Y349948, FTC47208, FTC47182, FTC63093, FTC47719, FTB38504, FTA76369, FTC47480, FTC47337
E-Y30000 · E-Y30000 · 4 samples
E-Y45976 · E-Y45976 · 4 samples
E-Y184681 · E-M11638 · 3 samples
E-BY160994 · E-BY162522 · 2 samples
E-BY191349 · E-BY191336 · 2 samples
and 20 more

kits with a country

sub-branches included; 87 kits in the branch in all, 37 without a country

on the branch itself

with a country, the test did not resolve a sub-branch; 1 on the branch itself in all, those without a country included

71%

Big Y

62 of 87: every kit of the branch with sub-branches, those without a country included

sub-branches

0 with their own page, 4 without

101

samples at FTDNA Discover

64 with a country; the public tree has 87 kits

5,100 years

age by Discover

the common ancestor lived 4,300 to 6,100 years ago

4,800 years

age by YFull

common ancestor (TMRCA); the branch split from its parent 5,100 years ago

Where it is found #

Countries and regions given by the branch's carriers. “Share of branch” is the part of the branch's kits that belongs to the country. “Share of country” is the part of that country's kits that falls into the branch; it is computed only for countries with at least 50 kits.

Colour is the branch's share of the country's kits. Hover over a country or tap it.

Where it is found
Country / region	kits	Share of branch	Share of country
Saudi Arabia	22	44.0%	0.2%
Kuwait	9	18.0%	0.4%
Rwanda	9	18.0%	·
Iraq	3	6.0%	3 of 3,216
Burundi	2	4.0%	·
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	1	2.0%	·
Qatar	1	2.0%	1 of 694
South Africa	1	2.0%	1 of 233
United Arab Emirates	1	2.0%	1 of 1,368
Yemen	1	2.0%	1 of 1,616

YFull

Most common among these peoples #

From YFull samples that gave a mother tongue: the part of a people's samples that falls into this branch. The list has peoples with at least 30 samples, 3 or more of them in this branch.

Arabs: 0.2% of samples (6 of 2,495)

Sub-branches #

Sub-branches that have their own page (50 kits or more), as a tree: every direct one, nested ones from 1% of the branch's kits. The bar is the kits in the sub-branch with its own sub-branches; the age is when its common ancestor lived.

No sub-branch has its own page: only small branches lie below.

Also 1 small sub-branch of under 5 kits: 3 kits in all.

Sub-branches without a page #

Each of these sub-branches has fewer than 50 kits with a country, so none has its own page. Below are all with 5 or more kits, with their age and top countries.

E-M293 25 kits 4,500 years Rwanda 9, Kuwait 4, Iraq 3
E-CTS2297 22 kits 3,900 years Rwanda 8, Iraq 3, Kuwait 3
E-Z20917 21 kits 3,700 years Rwanda 8, Iraq 3, Kuwait 3
E-Z1258 19 kits 3,500 years Rwanda 7, Iraq 3, Kuwait 3
E-FT190593 16 kits 3,300 years Rwanda 5, Iraq 3, Saudi Arabia 3
E-Y51338 11 kits 3,300 years Iraq 3, Kuwait 2, Rwanda 2
E-FT190231 10 kits 3,200 years Iraq 3, Kuwait 2, Saudi Arabia 2
E-SK950 9 kits 2,700 years Iraq 3, Kuwait 2, Saudi Arabia 2
E-SK951 8 kits 2,200 years Iraq 3, Kuwait 2, Saudi Arabia 2
E-FT190426 7 kits 1,700 years Iraq 3, Saudi Arabia 2, Kuwait 1
E-Y55487 6 kits 700 years Iraq 2, Saudi Arabia 2, Kuwait 1
E-Y45976 5 kits 300 years Iraq 2, Saudi Arabia 2, Kuwait 1
E-FT307744 5 kits 3,000 years Rwanda 3, Burundi 1, Saudi Arabia 1
E-Z28530 14 kits 3,800 years Saudi Arabia 11, Kuwait 3
E-FGC71800 7 kits 2,300 years Saudi Arabia 7
E-Y30000 7 kits 400 years Saudi Arabia 4, Kuwait 3
E-FT70953 8 kits 4,500 years Saudi Arabia 6, Kuwait 1, Yemen 1
E-FT70915 7 kits 3,700 years Saudi Arabia 6, Kuwait 1
E-BY161041 5 kits 400 years Saudi Arabia 4, Kuwait 1

How old the branch is, by source #

Each source's estimate on one scale, in years ago. A dot is the estimate, a bar its spread (a 95% interval for YFull); no bar means the source publishes no spread. The “common ancestor” rows show when the last common ancestor of all carriers lived, the “split” rows when the branch broke off from its parent. Discover does not estimate the split, so its row shows the age of the parent branch itself.

FTDNA Discover common ancestor5,100 years (4,300–6,100)

YFull common ancestor4,800 years (4,300–5,400) · 44 samples

FTDNA Discover split from the parent5,400 years (4,600–6,300)

YFull split from the parent5,100 years (4,500–5,800) · 44 samples

How the branch grew #

How many sub-branches already existed at each moment: a sub-branch counts from the time its common ancestor lived (FamilyTreeDNA Discover estimates). Sub-branches with a known age: 53.

explosive growth: the number of sub-branches doubles in under 400 yearsgrowth: the number doubles in 400–1,500 yearsstagnation: no doubling within 1,500 yearsgrey: fewer than 5 sub-branches at the start of a stretch — too little to tell the rate

Across: years ago; up: number of sub-branches, log scale. The shaded band marks the period when the count multiplied most; the last thousand years are left out.

The branch grew fastest 4,000–3,000 years ago: its sub-branches went from 5 to 16.

Sub-branches of the last centuries show up only where many relatives have tested, so the right end of the curve says more about who took a test than about population growth.

New this month #

FTDNA: how much the kit count grew between the tree copies of 2026-10-02 and 2026-11-02. A kit that moved to a new sub-branch after refinement is not counted as new. YFull: samples YFull itself marks as new, in the copy of 2026-11-02; YFull drops the mark after a few weeks.

Y-DNA, FTDNA

new kits, 2026-10-02 → 2026-11-02

Where it grew

without a country: 2

Kuwait: +1
Saudi Arabia: +1

Surnames #

Surnames that testers entered at FTDNA, over the whole branch with its sub-branches: 1 distinct among 3 kits. FTDNA gives surnames per branch only, with no country attached, so they cannot be split by country.

Al-Rashed 3

Ancient samples in the branch #

14 samples from excavations belong to this branch or its subbranches. Source: FamilyTreeDNA Discover. “?” means Discover is unsure of the sample's place on the tree. 12 of 14 samples are marked.

A dot is a sample, a line is the range it is dated to, the colour is its culture. A hollow dot: its placement on the tree is uncertain. The dashed line is the branch's common ancestor as FTDNA Discover estimates it.

Years ago. The scale tightens towards the past: the further back, the closer the centuries.

East African PastoralistBronze Age East AfricanGumbanSouth African ForagerHungariansSwahili peopleotherplacement on the tree is uncertain

Where found

The oldest

1,618 BCE · East African Pastoralist, Kenya E-FT190593 ?
1,017 BCE · Bronze Age East African, Kenya E-Z20917 ?
449 BCE · East African Pastoralist, Kenya E-Z1258 ?
388 BCE · East African Pastoralist, Kenya E-Z20917 ?
282 BCE · Gumban, Kenya E-Z20917 ?
200 BCE · East African Pastoralist, Tanzania E-FT190426 ?
100 BCE · East African Pastoralist, Kenya E-M293 ?
270 CE · East African Pastoralist, Kenya E-FT190231 ?