Yancai Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Yancai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 124 | 1:189,071 | 1,638 |
| China | 7 | 1:195,331,652 | 10,124 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yancai (41,946) may also be a first name.
Yancai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yancai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yancai is most common in Taiwan. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yancai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,544,715th most numerous last name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 54,384,671 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Yancai are found; 98 percent are found in East Asia and 98 percent are found in Sino-East Asia. It is also the 21,374th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 41,946 people.
The surname Yancai is most commonly occurring in Taiwan, where it is held by 124 people, or 1 in 189,071. In Taiwan Yancai is most numerous in: Taichung City, where 26 percent live, Kaohsiung City, where 19 percent live and Changhua County, where 11 percent live. Apart from Taiwan Yancai exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in China, where 5 percent live and Brazil, where 1 percent live.
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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
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