Yanai Surname
Approximately 27,840 people bear this surname
Yanai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 26,713 | 1:4,786 | 767 |
| Brazil | 250 | 1:856,297 | 30,890 |
| United States | 228 | 1:1,589,732 | 106,920 |
| Thailand | 157 | 1:449,926 | 79,063 |
| Papua New Guinea | 142 | 1:57,421 | 7,328 |
| New Caledonia | 83 | 1:3,328 | 498 |
| Dominican Republic | 62 | 1:168,273 | 6,481 |
| Indonesia | 43 | 1:3,075,563 | 171,061 |
| Singapore | 30 | 1:183,590 | 7,666 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Philippines | 8 | 1:12,654,778 | 228,986 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1:1,833,871 | 6,220 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1:17,080,085 | 2,793 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 1:54,580 | 1,498 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
The alternate forms: Yanaï (6) are calculated separately.
Yanai (7,087) may also be a first name.
Yanai Demographics
Average Yanai Salary in
United States
$51,473 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Yanai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yanai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yanai (Arabic: ليناي, Russian: Янаи) is more frequently found in Japan than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as: Yanaï. For other potential spellings of Yanai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 19,703rd most commonly used last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 261,765 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 97 percent of Yanai reside; 96 percent reside in East Asia and 96 percent reside in Nippono-Asia. It is also the 76,947th most frequent forename throughout the world It is held by 7,087 people.
It is most commonly used in Japan, where it is carried by 26,713 people, or 1 in 4,786. In Japan Yanai is primarily concentrated in: Fukushima Prefecture, where 14 percent live, Tokyo Metropolis, where 13 percent live and Kanagawa Prefecture, where 7 percent live. Outside of Japan this surname occurs in 45 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
Yanai Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Yanai surname are 23.85% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 77.08% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Yanai earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 19.29% more than the national average, earning $51,473 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.83% less than the national average, earning $43,310 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yanai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yanai in the Russian language | ||
| Янаи | anai | - |
| Yanai in the Arabic language | ||
| ليناي | lynay | - |
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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 Yanai
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