Yangs Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Yangs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100 | 1:1,771,428 | 64,453 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| Bhutan | 5 | 1:123,208 | 891 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Yangs (95) may also be a first name.
Yangs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yangs Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yangs is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yangs? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,504,764th most frequently used family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 52,428,388 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Yangs are found; 72 percent are found in West Africa and 72 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yangs is also the 974,243rd most common first name in the world, held by 95 people.
The surname Yangs is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 100 people, or 1 in 1,771,428. In Nigeria Yangs is most prevalent in: Kaduna, where 72 percent reside, Plateau, where 14 percent reside and Lagos, where 5 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this surname exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent reside and China, where 6 percent reside.
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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 Yangs
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