Yaku Surname
Approximately 2,766 people bear this surname
Yaku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 1,095 | 1:7,446 | 538 |
| Japan | 504 | 1:253,659 | 10,236 |
| Nigeria | 430 | 1:411,960 | 21,473 |
| Indonesia | 339 | 1:390,116 | 33,199 |
| India | 153 | 1:5,013,499 | 125,565 |
| DR Congo | 144 | 1:513,053 | 40,658 |
| Israel | 12 | 1:713,136 | 47,700 |
| Russia | 11 | 1:13,102,096 | 377,010 |
| China | 11 | 1:124,301,961 | 6,553 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Uganda | 9 | 1:4,337,698 | 99,715 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Yaku (4,223) may also be a first name.
Yaku Demographics
Average Yaku Salary in
United States
$44,000 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Yaku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yaku Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yaku (Hindi: याकू, Marathi: याकु, Russian: Яку) is most common in Papua New Guinea. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yaku? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 158,027th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 2,634,688 people. The last name is primarily found in Oceania, where 47 percent of Yaku live; 47 percent live in Oceania Islands and 47 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Yaku is also the 106,738th most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 4,223 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 1,095 people, or 1 in 7,446. In Papua New Guinea Yaku is mostly found in: Enga, where 23 percent live, Morobe, where 23 percent live and East Sepik, where 19 percent live. Beside Papua New Guinea Yaku occurs in 33 countries. It is also found in Japan, where 18 percent live and Nigeria, where 16 percent live.
Yaku Last Name Statistics demography
Yaku earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 1.97% more than the national average, earning $44,000 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yaku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yaku in the Hindi language | ||
| याकू | yaku | 70 |
| याकु | yaku | 20 |
| यकू | yaku | 6.67 |
| यकु | yaku | 3.33 |
| Yaku in the Marathi language | ||
| याकु | yaku | 50.88 |
| यकु | yaku | 24.56 |
| यकू | yaku | 14.04 |
| याकू | yaku | 8.77 |
| Yaku in the Russian language | ||
| Яку | aku | - |
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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 Yaku
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