Ben Yahia Surname
Approximately 6,581 people bear this surname
Ben Yahia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 4,292 | 1:9,001 | 1,563 |
| Morocco | 1,874 | 1:18,397 | 2,834 |
| Tunisia | 192 | 1:3,180 | 462 |
| France | 157 | 1:423,075 | 61,574 |
| Spain | 24 | 1:1,948,002 | 52,403 |
| Netherlands | 15 | 1:1,125,812 | 68,885 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Germany | 5 | 1:16,101,092 | 397,699 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 4 | 1:283,918 | 487 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Oman | 4 | 1:921,993 | 7,313 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Ben Yahia (252) may also be a first name.
Ben Yahia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ben Yahia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ben Yahia is carried by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ben Yahia? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ben Yahia is the 74,690th most commonly occurring surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,107,361 people. The last name Ben Yahia is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Ben Yahia are found; 97 percent are found in North Africa and 97 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 561,423rd most numerous first name in the world, borne by 252 people.
The surname Ben Yahia is most frequent in Algeria, where it is borne by 4,292 people, or 1 in 9,001. In Algeria it is primarily found in: Adrar Province, where 15 percent reside, Biskra Province, where 10 percent reside and Tizi Ouzou Province, where 9 percent reside. Besides Algeria this last name is found in 26 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 28 percent reside and Tunisia, where 3 percent reside.
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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
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