FTDNA Y-tree branch

Haplogroup T-Y16244

T-Y16244 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 7,700 years ago: the FTDNA Discover estimate runs from 6,500 to 9,100 years ago. YFull has 46 samples in this branch and dates its common ancestor to 7,300 years ago.

Belongs to the T-M184 branch, which has a note.

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

Branch SNPs: 11 · 47 more at YFull

Y16244, FGC40871, FGC40923, FT6081, L416, Y126069, Y16245, Y16246, Y16276, Y16277, Y19293

The same mutation arose again on other branches: L416 — I-BY55995, I-L417

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

T-A17400 · T-FTD53416 · 4 samples
Y352526
T-Y550215 · T-FTE92145 · 3 samples
Y556341
T-BY28353 · T-BY28353 · 2 samples
Y530967(H), Y530875(H), Y530821(H), Y530868
T-Y38992 · T-BY78013 · 2 samples
Y191307, Y528083
T-Y14121 · T-Y19201 · 1 sample
Y167769
T-Y52045 · T-FGC40895 · 1 sample
Y46822
T-Y545404 · T-FTE94295 · 1 sample
Y675844
T-Y550212 · T-FTE92222 · 1 sample
Y556354, Y556387, Y554039, Y556333(H), Y586453(H), Y556351, Y640849(H), Y556347(H), Y556368
T-Y16244
Y265903, Y504377(H), Y533407
T-Y18472 · T-Y18472
Y533660(H), Y533382, Y583717
T-Y18474 · T-FGC40889
Y265880, L267
T-Y19200 · T-FGC40905
A38489
and 26 more

kits with a country

sub-branches included; 62 kits in the branch in all, 12 without a country

on the branch itself

with a country, the test did not resolve a sub-branch; 3 on the branch itself in all, those without a country included

87%

Big Y

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

sub-branches

0 with their own page, 2 without

7,700 years

age by Discover

the common ancestor lived 6,500 to 9,100 years ago

7,300 years

age by YFull

common ancestor (TMRCA); the branch split from its parent 8,300 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	27	54.0%	0.2%
Kuwait	8	16.0%	0.4%
Iraq	4	8.0%	4 of 3,216
Egypt	2	4.0%	2 of 622
Jordan	2	4.0%	2 of 362
Bahrain	1	2.0%	1 of 781
Bulgaria	1	2.0%	1 of 885
Italy	1	2.0%	1 of 6,029
Palestinian Territory	1	2.0%	1 of 675
Sudan	1	2.0%	1 of 409
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.

On the branch itself, without a resolved sub-branch: 3 kits.

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.

T-Y18472 36 kits 7,300 years Saudi Arabia 24, Kuwait 7, Egypt 2
T-FGC40889 34 kits 5,200 years Saudi Arabia 24, Kuwait 7, Bahrain 1
T-FGC40905 30 kits 2,800 years Saudi Arabia 21, Kuwait 7, Bahrain 1
T-BY2977 26 kits 1,000 years Saudi Arabia 21, Kuwait 4, Bahrain 1
T-Y19201 22 kits 1,000 years Saudi Arabia 17, Kuwait 4, Bahrain 1
T-FT5858 14 kits 700 years Saudi Arabia 10, Kuwait 4
T-BY165058 10 kits 600 years Saudi Arabia 10
T-FT406 6 kits 400 years Saudi Arabia 6
T-BY28353 11 kits 7,500 years Saudi Arabia 3, Iraq 2, Jordan 2
T-BY116104 9 kits 6,500 years Iraq 2, Saudi Arabia 2, Jordan 1
T-FTD79998 9 kits 6,100 years Iraq 2, Saudi Arabia 2, Jordan 1
T-FTD81020 5 kits 6,000 years Iraq 2, Jordan 1, Palestinian Territory 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 ancestor7,700 years (6,500–9,100)

YFull common ancestor7,300 years (6,000–8,600) · 46 samples

FTDNA Discover split from the parent8,600 years (7,500–9,900)

YFull split from the parent8,300 years (7,600–9,100) · 46 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: 42.

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 3,000–2,000 years ago: its sub-branches went from 8 to 11.

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

Y-DNA, YFull

new samples as of 2026-11-02

Where it grew

Kuwait: +1

New Y-DNA samples in YFull

T-FTH65539 · Al Kuwayt (Al Asimah)

Surnames #

Surnames that testers entered at FTDNA, over the whole branch with its sub-branches: 1 distinct among 2 kits. FTDNA gives surnames per branch only, with no country attached, so they cannot be split by country.

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