Yamoa Surname
Approximately 245 people bear this surname
Yamoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 199 | 1:115,936 | 5,803 |
| Papua New Guinea | 40 | 1:203,843 | 28,184 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yamoa (127) may also be a first name.
Yamoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yamoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yamoa (Russian: Ямоа) is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yamoa? popularity and diffusion
Yamoa is the 1,028,911th most commonly held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 29,745,085 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Yamoa live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 71 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 825,494th most commonly held given name worldwide It is held by 127 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 199 people, or 1 in 115,936. In The Ivory Coast Yamoa is mostly found in: Comoé District, where 43 percent reside, Lacs District, where 42 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 12 percent reside. Barring The Ivory Coast Yamoa is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yamoa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yamoa in the Russian language | ||
| Ямоа | amoa | - |
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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 Yamoa
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