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
The surname Yangs occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yangs? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,504,764th most prevalent last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 52,428,388 people. Yangs occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Yangs live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 72 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 974,243rd most frequent first name on earth, held by 95 people.
This surname is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 100 people, or 1 in 1,771,428. In Nigeria Yangs is mostly found in: Kaduna, where 72 percent reside, Plateau, where 14 percent reside and Lagos, where 5 percent reside. Barring Nigeria it occurs in 9 countries. It is also common 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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