Yankers Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Belarus

Yankers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yankers Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

Yankers Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Yankers Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Yankers (Russian: Янкерс) has its highest incidence in The United States. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Yankers? popularity and diffusion

The last name Yankers is the 6,723,624th most widespread last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. Yankers occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 75 percent of Yankers reside; 63 percent reside in North America and 63 percent reside in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most numerous in The United States, where it is borne by 5 people, or 1 in 72,491,787. In The United States it is primarily found in: Florida, where 80 percent are found and New York, where 20 percent are found. Aside from The United States it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 13 percent are found and Belarus, where 13 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yonkers861,604/
Jankers8624/
Yongkers800/
Jonkers7114,262/
Jankars713/
Yonkors710/
Jonckers671,661/
Jonkerse674/
Jongkers671/
Jonkars571/
Jonkors571/
Jonchers531/

Yankers Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yankers in the Russian language
Янкерсankers-

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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 Yankers
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