Yakie Surname
Approximately 216 people bear this surname
Yakie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 158 | 1:1,121,157 | 46,146 |
| Papua New Guinea | 50 | 1:163,074 | 22,562 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Yakie (163) may also be a first name.
Yakie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yakie is found most in Nigeria. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakie? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,121,821st most commonly occurring surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. The surname Yakie is mostly found in Africa, where 75 percent of Yakie live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 74 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yakie is also the 717,791st most commonly held first name in the world, borne by 163 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 158 people, or 1 in 1,121,157. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Bayelsa, where 98 percent reside and Rivers, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 23 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent reside.
Yakie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Yakie has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Yakie last name grew 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Yakie
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