FTDNA Y-tree branch

Haplogroup Q-BZ1462

Q-BZ1462 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: Georgia (2.2% of kits), United States (0.0% of kits). The branch's common ancestor lived about 6,200 years ago: the FTDNA Discover estimate runs from 5,200 to 7,300 years ago. YFull has 21 samples in this branch and dates its common ancestor to 6,400 years ago.

Belongs to the Q-M346 branch, which has a note.

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

Branch SNPs: 22 · 27 more at YFull

BZ1462, BY15824, BY15825, BY15826, BY15827, BY15828, BY15829, BY15830, BZ1466, BZ1493, BZ1502, BZ1520, BZ1545, FT213918, FT390881, FT71589, FT71657, FT71896, FT72043, FT72236, Y351448, ZS4789

The same mutation arose again on other branches: BZ1462 — H-Z41284; BY15826 — R-BY137199; ZS4789 — R-BY165288, J-ZS4782

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

Q-Y37884 · Q-BZ4517 · 2 samples
Y37885
Q-BZ1487 · Q-BZ1471 · 1 sample
Y474689, Y359159
Q-Y102534 · Q-FT284461 · 1 sample
Y625838, Y618295, Y625837(H), Y625843, Y358258
Q-Y191574 · Q-BZ4502 · 1 sample
A41826/Y450911, Y450390
Q-BZ1466
Y621566, Y555440, Y555250(H), Y555225
Q-BZ1499 · Q-BZ1499
Y555092(H), Y555376
Q-Y450477 · Q-FTB25733
MF154689, FTF47928/Y451125, FTF47712/Y451270, FTF47596/Y450829, FTF47335/Y450477, MF132173
Q-Y81205 · Q-FT284461
Y625846, Y625839(H), Y625845
Q-FTC46111 · Q-FTC46111 · 3 samples
Q-BZ1461 · Q-BZ1461 · 2 samples
Q-FT71481 · Q-FT72660 · 2 samples
Q-Y113074 · Q-BZ4642 · 2 samples
and 10 more

kits with a country

sub-branches included; 89 kits in the branch in all, 39 without a country

on the branch itself

with a country, the test did not resolve a sub-branch; 0 on the branch itself in all, those without a country included

67%

Big Y

60 of 89: every kit of the branch with sub-branches, those without a country included

sub-branches

0 with their own page, 2 without

samples at FTDNA Discover

53 with a country; the public tree has 89 kits

6,200 years

age by Discover

the common ancestor lived 5,200 to 7,300 years ago

6,400 years

age by YFull

common ancestor (TMRCA); the branch split from its parent 8,000 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
Georgia	14	28.0%	2.2%
United States	9	18.0%	<0.1%
England	3	6.0%	3 of 27,808
Germany	3	6.0%	3 of 17,572
Ireland	3	6.0%	3 of 22,312
Yemen	3	6.0%	3 of 1,616
India	2	4.0%	2 of 1,485
Guatemala	1	2.0%	1 of 77
Italy	1	2.0%	1 of 6,029
Mexico	1	2.0%	1 of 2,297
Morocco	1	2.0%	1 of 568
Netherlands	1	2.0%	1 of 2,309
Nicaragua	1	2.0%	·
Portugal	1	2.0%	1 of 1,912
Saudi Arabia	1	2.0%	1 of 12,039
Scotland	1	2.0%	1 of 14,213
Spain	1	2.0%	1 of 3,939
Syrian Arab Republic	1	2.0%	1 of 914
Tajikistan	1	2.0%	1 of 170
Turkey	1	2.0%	1 of 2,539

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.

Georgians: 3.6% of samples (3 of 83)

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.

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.

Q-L935 42 kits 5,900 years Georgia 13, United States 8, England 3
Q-L936 39 kits 5,800 years Georgia 13, United States 8, England 3
Q-FT213907 39 kits 5,800 years Georgia 13, United States 8, England 3
Q-BZ1499 25 kits 5,200 years United States 8, England 3, Germany 3
Q-BZ1463 13 kits 4,800 years United States 6, Ireland 3, Germany 2
Q-L937 11 kits 2,800 years United States 6, Ireland 3, Italy 1
Q-FT122087 10 kits 2,100 years United States 6, Ireland 3, Italy 1
Q-BZ1471 9 kits 1,500 years United States 6, Ireland 3
Q-BZ1461 8 kits 1,000 years United States 5, Ireland 3
Q-BY62124 8 kits 3,100 years Germany 1, Guatemala 1, Mexico 1
Q-BY140676 5 kits 2,900 years Mexico 1, Morocco 1, Nicaragua 1
Q-BY74184 5 kits 1,000 years Mexico 1, Morocco 1, Nicaragua 1
Q-FT284461 14 kits 700 years Georgia 13, Turkey 1
Q-FTE95520 9 kits 500 years Georgia 9
Q-FTC46111 8 kits 300 years Georgia 8
Q-BZ4510 8 kits 6,000 years Yemen 3, Georgia 1, Saudi Arabia 1
Q-BZ4502 5 kits 4,800 years Yemen 3, Georgia 1, Saudi Arabia 1
Q-BZ4532 5 kits 4,400 years Yemen 3, Georgia 1, Saudi Arabia 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 ancestor6,200 years (5,200–7,300)

YFull Q-BZ1466 common ancestor6,400 years (5,300–7,600) · 21 samples

FTDNA Discover split from the parent8,100 years (6,900–9,400)

YFull Q-BZ1466 split from the parent8,000 years (7,000–9,100) · 21 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: 45.

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 5,000–4,000 years ago: its sub-branches went from 5 to 9.

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

Tajikistan: +1

Surnames #

Surnames that testers entered at FTDNA, over the whole branch with its sub-branches: 2 distinct among 5 kits. FTDNA gives surnames per branch only, with no country attached, so they cannot be split by country.

Black 3
Aiken 2

Ancient samples in the branch #

26 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. 7 of 26 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.

Srubnaya cultureMaykop cultureYamnaya cultureUsatove cultureBronze Age BalkanScythiansotherplacement on the tree is uncertain

Where found

Russian Federation 18 list
Russia (Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria) 2 list
Kazakhstan 2 list
Moldova 1 list
Bulgaria 1 list
Lebanon 1 list
France 1 list

The oldest

3,235 BCE · Maykop culture, Russia (Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria) Q-L936 ?
3,233 BCE · Maykop culture, Russia (Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria) Q-BZ1462 ?
3,209 BCE · Maykop culture, Russian Federation Q-BZ1462 ?
3,187 BCE · Usatove culture, Moldova Q-BZ1462 ?
2,587 BCE · Yamnaya culture, Kazakhstan Q-BZ1462 ?
2,587 BCE · Yamnaya culture, Kazakhstan Q-FTH74408
2,150 BCE · Bronze Age Balkan, Bulgaria Q-BZ1499
1,801 BCE · Srubnaya culture, Russian Federation Q-FTF123