Yackub Surname
Approximately 263 people bear this surname
Yackub Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somalia | 245 | 1:54,906 | 2,420 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
Yackub (63) may also be a first name.
Yackub Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yackub Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yackub is more commonly found in Somalia than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yackub? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 980,795th most frequently held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 27,709,300 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Yackub reside; 93 percent reside in East Africa and 93 percent reside in Cushitic Africa. Yackub is also the 1,234,572nd most widely held first name world-wide It is held by 63 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Somalia, where it is carried by 245 people, or 1 in 54,906. Other than Somalia it exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 3 percent reside and Malaysia, 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yackub
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