Yahyya Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Yahyya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 33 | 1:5,367,962 | 136,856 |
| Pakistan | 11 | 1:16,240,353 | 64,496 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Yahyya (117) may also be a first name.
Yahyya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahyya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yahyya is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Yahyya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahyya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,909,720th most commonly used family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 73 percent of Yahyya reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 73 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 864,112th most frequently used given name in the world, borne by 117 people.
The last name Yahyya is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 33 people, or 1 in 5,367,962. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Sokoto, where 48 percent reside, Zamfara, where 48 percent reside and Lagos, where 3 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Pakistan, where 24 percent reside and India, where 2 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 Yahyya
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