Yakuub Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Yakuub Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 33 | 1:5,367,962 | 136,856 |
| India | 29 | 1:26,450,530 | 346,896 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yakuub (111) may also be a first name.
Yakuub Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakuub Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yakuub (Hindi: याकुूब) occurs most in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakuub? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yakuub is the 2,273,756th most frequently used last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 104,107,799 people. Yakuub is mostly found in Africa, where 54 percent of Yakuub reside; 49 percent reside in West Africa and 49 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 890,531st most frequent forename worldwide, held by 111 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 33 people, or 1 in 5,367,962. In Nigeria Yakuub is mostly concentrated in: Oyo, where 33 percent reside, Kwara, where 18 percent reside and Benue, where 12 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria it is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in India, where 41 percent reside and Somalia, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yakuub Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yakuub in the Hindi language | ||
| याकुूब | yakuuba | 50 |
| याकूुब | yakuuba | 33.33 |
| याकुुब | yakuuba | 4.17 |
| याकूूब | yakuuba | 4.17 |
| याकुब | yakuba | 4.17 |
| याकूब | yakuba | 4.17 |
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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 Yakuub
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