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
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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 can be found in the variant forms: Yanaï. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 19,703rd most widely held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 261,765 people. This last name occurs predominantly 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 common first name worldwide, borne by 7,087 people.
The last name is most widely held in Japan, where it is carried by 26,713 people, or 1 in 4,786. In Japan it is most common in: Fukushima Prefecture, where 14 percent live, Tokyo Metropolis, where 13 percent live and Kanagawa Prefecture, where 7 percent live. Barring Japan this last name exists 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 last name are 23.85% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US 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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