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 more commonly found in Nepal than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Yakha.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 96,920th most frequent last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 1,486,647 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Yakha reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 93 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Yakha is also the 124,776th most common first name worldwide. It is borne by 3,289 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nepal, where it is held by 4,280 people, or 1 in 6,654. In Nepal it is most numerous in: Koshi, where 88 percent are found, Mechi, where 10 percent are found and Sagarmatha, where 1 percent are found. Outside of Nepal Yakha is found in 21 countries. It is also found in India, where 6 percent are found and Bhutan, where 4 percent are found.
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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- 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 Yakha
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