Yabah Surname
Approximately 752 people bear this surname
Yabah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Mauritania | 142 | 1:28,837 | 2,412 |
| Liberia | 106 | 1:41,590 | 3,811 |
| Iraq | 68 | 1:515,024 | 8,412 |
| Cameroon | 47 | 1:441,895 | 37,035 |
| Afghanistan | 27 | 1:1,190,859 | 10,584 |
| Yemen | 6 | 1:4,404,216 | 18,907 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yabah (679) may also be a first name.
Yabah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yabah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yabah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﺑﺎﻩ) is borne by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yabah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 451,630th most commonly used family name in the world, held by around 1 in 9,690,886 people. The last name Yabah is mostly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Yabah reside; 80 percent reside in West Africa and 46 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yabah is also the 317,830th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 679 people.
The last name Yabah is most frequently occurring in Ghana, where it is borne by 346 people, or 1 in 78,094. Without taking into account Ghana Yabah occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 19 percent are found and Liberia, where 14 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yabah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yabah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﺑﺎﻩ | yabah | 97.73 |
| ﻳﺎﺃﺑﺎﻩ | yaabah | 2.27 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Yabah
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