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.

DNA test information

Yankers Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
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 surname Yankers (Russian: Янкерс) occurs most in The United States. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Yankers? popularity and diffusion

Yankers is the 6,723,624th most frequent surname internationally, held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 75 percent of Yankers are found; 63 percent are found in North America and 63 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

This last name is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 5 people, or 1 in 72,491,787. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: Florida, where 80 percent live and New York, where 20 percent live. Apart from The United States this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 13 percent live and Belarus, where 13 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yonkers861,604/
Jankers8624/
Yongkers800/
Jonkers7114,262/
Jankars713/
Yonkors710/
Jonckers671,661/
Jonkerse674/
Jongkers671/
Jonkars571/
Jonkors571/
Jonchers531/
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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
  • 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 Yankers
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