Yakegba Surname
Approximately 78 people bear this surname
Yakegba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 56 | 1:3,163,264 | 96,723 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Yakegba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakegba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yakegba is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakegba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,136,387th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 93,430,076 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Yakegba are found; 72 percent are found in West Africa and 72 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Yakegba is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 56 people, or 1 in 3,163,264. In Nigeria Yakegba is most frequent in: Bayelsa, where 93 percent reside, Lagos, where 5 percent reside and Rivers, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 27 percent reside and Canada, where 1 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
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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 Yakegba
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