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 surname Yahee is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant: Yahée. Click here for other potential spellings of Yahee.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahee? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,798,600th most frequently used family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Yahee reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yahee is also the 2,136,160th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 25 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 9,841,264. In Nigeria Yahee is most frequent in: Nasarawa, where 83 percent live, Lagos, where 11 percent live and Bayelsa, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 26 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live.
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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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