Yakobe Surname
Approximately 7,860 people bear this surname
Yakobe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 4,810 | 1:3,559 | 474 |
| Ethiopia | 2,415 | 1:40,392 | 4,505 |
| Zimbabwe | 602 | 1:25,645 | 3,913 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Yakobe (2,578) may also be a first name.
Yakobe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakobe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yakobe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ, Russian: Якобэ) is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakobe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 63,723rd most commonly occurring surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 927,169 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yakobe live; 69 percent live in Southern Africa and 69 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Yakobe is also the 144,977th most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 2,578 people.
The surname Yakobe is most numerous in Malawi, where it is carried by 4,810 people, or 1 in 3,559. Apart from Malawi this surname is found in 17 countries. It also occurs in Ethiopia, where 31 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yakobe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yakobe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
| Yakobe in the Russian language | ||
| Якобэ | akobe | - |
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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 Yakobe
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