Yakera Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Yakera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 77 | 1:2,300,555 | 77,632 |
| India | 28 | 1:27,395,192 | 354,286 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
Yakera (16) may also be a first name.
Yakera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakera Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yakera is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakera? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,736,881st most commonly used family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. Yakera occurs mostly in Africa, where 71 percent of Yakera reside; 69 percent reside in West Africa and 69 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yakera is also the 2,786,762nd most frequently used forename world-wide. It is borne by 16 people.
The surname Yakera is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 77 people, or 1 in 2,300,555. In Nigeria Yakera is most common in: Benue, where 92 percent live, Kogi, where 5 percent live and Nasarawa, where 1 percent live. Other than Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in India, where 25 percent live and Papua New Guinea, 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 Yakera
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