Yakawan Surname
Approximately 69 people bear this surname
Yakawan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 67 | 1:121,697 | 16,585 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Yakawan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakawan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yakawan is most common in Papua New Guinea. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakawan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,293,424th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 105,616,607 people. The surname Yakawan occurs mostly in Oceania, where 97 percent of Yakawan live; 97 percent live in Oceania Islands and 97 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 67 people, or 1 in 121,697. In Papua New Guinea Yakawan is primarily concentrated in: Enga, where 99 percent are found and Southern Highlands, where 1 percent are found. Other than Papua New Guinea this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 1 percent are found and The Philippines, where 1 percent are found.
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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
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- 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 Yakawan
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