Yammah Surname
Approximately 92 people bear this surname
Yammah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 66 | 1:2,683,981 | 86,518 |
| Liberia | 23 | 1:191,675 | 12,886 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
Yammah (602) may also be a first name.
Yammah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yammah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yammah is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yammah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,943,350th most common last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 79,212,456 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yammah reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 72 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 340,659th most frequently used first name throughout the world, held by 602 people.
This surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 66 people, or 1 in 2,683,981. In Nigeria Yammah is mostly concentrated in: Kaduna, where 64 percent live, Federal Capital Territory, where 21 percent live and Gombe, where 8 percent live. Beside Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 25 percent live and Kenya, where 3 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Yammah
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