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 found most in Ghana. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yankyera? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 246,275th most frequently occurring surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 4,512,412 people. The surname Yankyera 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 last name is most numerous in Ghana, where it is carried by 1,593 people, or 1 in 16,962. Beside Ghana this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent are found and Germany, where 0 percent are found.
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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
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