Yakah Surname
Approximately 1,454 people bear this surname
Yakah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,385 | 1:19,510 | 2,432 |
| Nigeria | 24 | 1:7,380,948 | 165,663 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Liberia | 13 | 1:339,118 | 18,650 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yakah (50) may also be a first name.
Yakah Demographics
Average Yakah Salary in
United States
$86,281 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Yakah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yakah (Arabic: عياشه) is borne by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yakah is the 268,397th most commonly held family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 5,012,067 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yakah live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yakah is also the 1,412,538th most numerous forename globally, borne by 50 people.
The last name is most numerous in Ghana, where it is borne by 1,385 people, or 1 in 19,510. Beside Ghana it exists in 12 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 2 percent reside and Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
Yakah Last Name Statistics demography
Yakah earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 99.96% more than the national average, earning $86,281 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yakah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yakah in the Arabic language | ||
| عياشه | yashh | - |
| ياقه | yaqh | - |
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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 Yakah
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