Yakea Surname
Approximately 61 people bear this surname
Yakea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Liberia | 4 | 1:1,102,134 | 37,930 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Yakea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yakea occurs most in Papua New Guinea. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakea? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yakea is the 2,460,878th most frequently occurring family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 119,467,966 people. This surname is primarily found in Oceania, where 92 percent of Yakea are found; 92 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 92 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.
The surname Yakea is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 54 people, or 1 in 150,995. In Papua New Guinea Yakea is most numerous in: Northern, where 80 percent live, East Sepik, where 15 percent live and Enga, where 2 percent live. Not including Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 7 percent live and Indonesia, where 3 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
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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 Yakea
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