Yahiah Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Yahiah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 50 | 1:589,884 | 28,692 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Yahiah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahiah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yahiah occurs in Malaysia more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahiah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,372,517th most commonly held surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 89 percent of Yahiah are found; 77 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 77 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia.
The surname is most widely held in Malaysia, where it is carried by 50 people, or 1 in 589,884. In Malaysia Yahiah is most frequent in: Sabah, where 98 percent live and Kuala Lumpur, where 2 percent live. Aside from Malaysia this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 11 percent live and Egypt, where 6 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 Yahiah
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