Yamwemba Surname
Approximately 845 people bear this surname
Yamwemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 840 | 1:21,848 | 1,458 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
Yamwemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yamwemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yamwemba occurs more in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Yamwemba.
How Common Is The Last Name Yamwemba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yamwemba is the 412,606th most frequently used last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 8,624,315 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yamwemba reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 840 people, or 1 in 21,848. In Burkina Faso Yamwemba is mostly found in: Plateau-Central Region, where 43 percent are found, Centre Region, where 42 percent are found and Centre-Sud Region, where 9 percent are found. Apart from Burkina Faso it exists in one country. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, 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
- 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 Yamwemba
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