Yankey Surname
Approximately 21,535 people bear this surname
Yankey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 19,812 | 1:1,364 | 227 |
| United States | 1,059 | 1:342,265 | 30,803 |
| Ivory Coast | 182 | 1:126,765 | 6,185 |
| England | 149 | 1:373,947 | 26,392 |
| Nigeria | 75 | 1:2,361,903 | 79,171 |
| Liberia | 30 | 1:146,951 | 10,677 |
| Papua New Guinea | 29 | 1:281,163 | 38,188 |
| Cameroon | 27 | 1:769,225 | 54,005 |
| Canada | 26 | 1:1,417,138 | 98,245 |
| South Africa | 26 | 1:2,083,758 | 92,464 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| Switzerland | 18 | 1:456,273 | 33,097 |
| Germany | 17 | 1:4,735,615 | 183,652 |
| Spain | 9 | 1:5,194,671 | 82,436 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 1:16,528 | 1,436 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Dominica | 3 | 1:25,297 | 621 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 129 | 1:389,292 | 29,048 |
Yankey (188) may also be a first name.
Yankey Demographics
Average Yankey Salary in
United States
$38,314 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Yankey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yankey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yankey (Tibetan: གཡང་སྐྱིད།) is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yankey? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 25,060th most widely held family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 338,405 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Yankey reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 663,277th most commonly held first name throughout the world, held by 188 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Ghana, where it is held by 19,812 people, or 1 in 1,364. Excluding Ghana this surname occurs in 39 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 5 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent live.
Yankey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Yankey has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Yankey surname expanded 821 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Yankey Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Yankey surname are 16.36% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 63.13% registered with the political party.
The amount Yankey earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 96.8% less than the national average, earning R 7,608 per year; in United States they earn 11.21% less than the national average, earning $38,314 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.34% less than the national average, earning $42,060 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yankey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yankey in the Tibetan language | ||
| གཡང་སྐྱིད། | yangkyi | 50 |
| གཡང་སྐྱིད་ | yangkyi | 50 |
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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 Yankey
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