Yacop Surname
Approximately 509 people bear this surname
Yacop Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 355 | 1:372,533 | 31,924 |
| Papua New Guinea | 59 | 1:138,199 | 19,012 |
| Malaysia | 25 | 1:1,179,769 | 51,323 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
Yacop (263) may also be a first name.
Yacop Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yacop Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yacop (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ) is found most frequently in Indonesia. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yacop? popularity and diffusion
It is the 608,234th most common surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 14,317,379 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 82 percent of Yacop are found; 79 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 75 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 548,616th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 263 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Indonesia, where it is borne by 355 people, or 1 in 372,533. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: Aceh, where 64 percent are found, East Kalimantan, where 20 percent are found and East Java, where 6 percent are found. Excluding Indonesia this last name is found in 15 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent are found and Malaysia, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yacop Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yacop in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
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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 Yacop
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