Yahba Surname
Approximately 809 people bear this surname
Yahba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 770 | 1:17,652 | 2,191 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yahba (1,002) may also be a first name.
Yahba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yahba is held by more people in Chad than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 427,014th most widely held family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 9,008,091 people. The last name Yahba is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yahba live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Chadic Africa. Yahba is also the 254,172nd most widespread first name world-wide, held by 1,002 people.
The last name Yahba is most widely held in Chad, where it is held by 770 people, or 1 in 17,652. Apart from Chad this surname occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 3 percent reside and Liberia, where 1 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 Yahba
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