Yamga Surname
Approximately 538 people bear this surname
Yamga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 506 | 1:41,046 | 5,470 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yamga (39) may also be a first name.
Yamga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yamga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yamga occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yamga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 582,776th most frequent family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 13,545,624 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yamga reside; 94 percent reside in Central Africa and 92 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,637,361st most widespread first name on earth, held by 39 people.
The last name Yamga is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 506 people, or 1 in 41,046. In Cameroon Yamga is most common in: Littoral Region, where 42 percent are found, West Region, where 33 percent are found and Centre Region, where 21 percent are found. Without taking into account Cameroon this surname occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 4 percent are found and France, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Yamga
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