Yamuah Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Yamuah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Yamuah (46) may also be a first name.
Yamuah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yamuah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yamuah occurs most in Ghana. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Yamuah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yamuah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 5,391,485th most frequently held last name globally, held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 85 percent of Yamuah reside; 69 percent reside in West Africa and 69 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yamuah is also the 1,484,914th most commonly occurring given name at a global level, held by 46 people.
This surname is most frequent in Ghana, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 3,002,299. Other than Ghana this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 8 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 8 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
- 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 Yamuah
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