M Yahaya Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
M Yahaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 182 | 1:973,312 | 41,407 |
| Niger | 22 | 1:872,364 | 19,806 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
M Yahaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name M Yahaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname M Yahaya has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name M Yahaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name M Yahaya is the 1,163,787th most commonly held last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 35,549,004 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of M Yahaya live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 89 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
M Yahaya is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 182 people, or 1 in 973,312. In Nigeria it is most common in: Jigawa, where 31 percent live, Gombe, where 16 percent live and Yobe, where 15 percent live. Not including Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 11 percent live and Malaysia, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to M Yahaya
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