Yake Surname
Approximately 8,001 people bear this surname
Yake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,969 | 1:7,771 | 673 |
| Togo | 1,575 | 1:4,602 | 829 |
| United States | 938 | 1:386,417 | 34,021 |
| Papua New Guinea | 532 | 1:15,327 | 1,483 |
| Canada | 486 | 1:75,814 | 8,549 |
| South Africa | 402 | 1:134,770 | 15,652 |
| Nigeria | 230 | 1:770,186 | 34,704 |
| DR Congo | 226 | 1:326,901 | 29,253 |
| Cameroon | 130 | 1:159,762 | 17,345 |
| Niger | 100 | 1:191,920 | 6,591 |
| Indonesia | 87 | 1:1,520,106 | 102,006 |
| Philippines | 65 | 1:1,557,511 | 106,526 |
| Argentina | 50 | 1:854,868 | 55,754 |
| India | 45 | 1:17,045,897 | 267,282 |
| Israel | 44 | 1:194,492 | 19,021 |
| Benin | 27 | 1:382,800 | 28,543 |
| Mauritania | 26 | 1:157,495 | 8,595 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| China | 14 | 1:97,665,826 | 5,141 |
| Thailand | 12 | 1:5,886,529 | 390,733 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 149 | 1:337,038 | 26,036 |
The alternate forms: Yaké (3) are calculated separately.
Yake (3,454) may also be a first name.
Yake Demographics
Yake Political Affiliation
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Yake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yake Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yake (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﻛﻪ, Marathi: याके) is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can occur in the variant forms: Yaké. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yake? popularity and diffusion
It is the 62,709th most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 910,829 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 65 percent of Yake reside; 56 percent reside in West Africa and 30 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 120,991st most common first name throughout the world, held by 3,454 people.
Yake is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 2,969 people, or 1 in 7,771. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 74 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 15 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 3 percent are found. Besides The Ivory Coast Yake occurs in 39 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 20 percent are found and The United States, where 12 percent are found.
Yake Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Yake has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Yake surname rose 630 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Yake Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Yake surname are 26.65% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 73.42% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Yake earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 39.43% less than the national average, earning R 143,940 per year; in United States they earn 6.84% more than the national average, earning $46,100 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.22% more than the national average, earning $57,247 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yake Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yake in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﻛﻪ | yakh | 50 |
| ﻳﺎﻙ | yak | 50 |
| Yake in the Marathi language | ||
| याके | yake | 50 |
| यके | yake | 50 |
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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 Yake
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