Yakoba Surname
Approximately 492 people bear this surname
Yakoba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 342 | 1:216,022 | 21,248 |
| Indonesia | 45 | 1:2,938,871 | 165,726 |
| Uganda | 21 | 1:1,859,013 | 62,128 |
| Ukraine | 15 | 1:3,034,846 | 176,305 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yakoba (6,125) may also be a first name.
Yakoba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakoba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yakoba (Marathi: याकोबा, Russian: Якоба) is carried by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakoba? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yakoba is the 623,516th most numerous last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 14,812,085 people. Yakoba is mostly found in Africa, where 82 percent of Yakoba live; 70 percent live in Central Africa and 70 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 84,566th most numerous given name globally, borne by 6,125 people.
It is most frequently used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 342 people, or 1 in 216,022. Apart from The DR Congo this last name is found in 15 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 9 percent reside and Uganda, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yakoba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yakoba in the Marathi language | ||
| याकोबा | yakoba | 78.38 |
| यकोबा | yakoba | 11.71 |
| याकोब | yakoba | 9.91 |
| Yakoba in the Russian language | ||
| Якоба | akoba | - |
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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 Yakoba
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