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 surname Yahayah (Hindi: याहयाह) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahayah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 553,576th most frequently occurring family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 12,651,989 people. This surname is mostly 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 widespread given name world-wide, held by 415 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 550 people, or 1 in 322,078. In Nigeria it is most common in: Jigawa, where 13 percent reside, Kaduna, where 12 percent reside and Zamfara, where 9 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this surname 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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