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
The surname Yahiah occurs more in Malaysia more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Yahiah.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahiah? popularity and diffusion
Yahiah is the 2,372,517th most frequently held last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 89 percent of Yahiah live; 77 percent live in Southeast Asia and 77 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia.
This surname is most frequently used in Malaysia, where it is borne by 50 people, or 1 in 589,884. In Malaysia Yahiah is most prevalent in: Sabah, where 98 percent live and Kuala Lumpur, where 2 percent live. Aside from Malaysia this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found 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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