Yakha Surname
Approximately 4,902 people bear this surname
Yakha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 4,280 | 1:6,654 | 533 |
| India | 295 | 1:2,600,222 | 81,894 |
| Bhutan | 190 | 1:3,242 | 200 |
| Qatar | 59 | 1:39,966 | 4,109 |
| Malaysia | 22 | 1:1,340,647 | 57,034 |
| Pakistan | 15 | 1:11,909,592 | 53,778 |
| Russia | 13 | 1:11,086,389 | 347,183 |
| Thailand | 11 | 1:6,421,668 | 407,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Yakha (3,289) may also be a first name.
Yakha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yakha (Marathi: याखा, Russian: Яха, Tibetan: ཡ་ཁ།) is found in Nepal more than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakha? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yakha is the 96,920th most widespread surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,486,647 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Yakha reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 93 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 124,776th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 3,289 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Nepal, where it is held by 4,280 people, or 1 in 6,654. In Nepal it is primarily concentrated in: Koshi, where 88 percent live, Mechi, where 10 percent live and Sagarmatha, where 1 percent live. Not including Nepal this surname is found in 21 countries. It also occurs in India, where 6 percent live and Bhutan, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yakha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yakha in the Marathi language | ||
| याखा | yakha | - |
| Yakha in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡ་ཁ། | yakha | 70.19 |
| ཨ་ཁ། | akha | 12.5 |
| ཡག་ཁ། | yakkha | 4.81 |
| ཡཱ་ཁ། | yakha | 4.81 |
| ཡགས་ཁ། | yakkha | 2.88 |
| ཡ་ཁ་། | yakha | 1.92 |
| ཡ་ཀ། | yaka | 1.92 |
| ཡཱག་ཁ། | yakkha | 0.96 |
| Yakha in the Russian language | ||
| Яха | aha | - |
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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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- 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 Yakha
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