Yalga Surname
Approximately 3,944 people bear this surname
Yalga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 3,542 | 1:27,540 | 3,358 |
| Papua New Guinea | 307 | 1:26,559 | 2,967 |
| India | 87 | 1:8,816,843 | 179,063 |
| Burkina Faso | 7 | 1:2,621,729 | 17,588 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yalga (155) may also be a first name.
Yalga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yalga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yalga (Marathi: यलगा, Russian: Йалга) is most common in Ethiopia. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yalga? popularity and diffusion
It is the 116,821st most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,847,755 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Yalga live; 90 percent live in East Africa and 90 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 738,219th most commonly held given name internationally, held by 155 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Ethiopia, where it is held by 3,542 people, or 1 in 27,540. Besides Ethiopia this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent are found and India, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yalga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yalga in the Marathi language | ||
| यलगा | yalaga | - |
| Yalga in the Russian language | ||
| Йалга | jalga | - |
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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 Yalga
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