Yankyera Surname
Approximately 1,615 people bear this surname
Yankyera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,593 | 1:16,962 | 2,149 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yankyera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yankyera Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yankyera is held by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yankyera? popularity and diffusion
It is the 246,275th most prevalent family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 4,512,412 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yankyera live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Yankyera is most frequent in Ghana, where it is borne by 1,593 people, or 1 in 16,962. Besides Ghana this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent reside and Germany, where 0 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
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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 Yankyera
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