Yahee Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Yahee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 18 | 1:9,841,264 | 197,192 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
The alternate forms: Yahée (1) are calculated separately.
Yahee (25) may also be a first name.
Yahee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahee Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yahee is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Yahée. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahee? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,798,600th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name Yahee occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Yahee live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,136,160th most common first name internationally, held by 25 people.
The surname is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 9,841,264. In Nigeria Yahee is most frequent in: Nasarawa, where 83 percent reside, Lagos, where 11 percent reside and Bayelsa, where 6 percent reside. Beside Nigeria this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 26 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 4 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
- 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 Yahee
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