Yahayah Surname
Approximately 576 people bear this surname
Yahayah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 550 | 1:322,078 | 17,694 |
| India | 11 | 1:69,733,217 | 610,955 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Niger | 4 | 1:4,798,004 | 75,547 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
Yahayah (415) may also be a first name.
Yahayah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahayah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yahayah (Hindi: याहयाह) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahayah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 553,576th most widely held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 12,651,989 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Yahayah reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yahayah is also the 422,034th most frequent first name on earth, held by 415 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 550 people, or 1 in 322,078. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Jigawa, where 13 percent reside, Kaduna, where 12 percent reside and Zamfara, where 9 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent reside and Tanzania, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yahayah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yahayah in the Hindi language | ||
| याहयाह | yahayaha | 76.92 |
| यहयह | yahayaha | 15.38 |
| यहयाह | yahayaha | 7.69 |
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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 Yahayah
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