Yanma Surname
Approximately 222 people bear this surname
Yanma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 181 | 1:978,689 | 41,594 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1:9,446,371 | 356,066 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| Benin | 4 | 1:2,583,900 | 73,293 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Yanma (1,737) may also be a first name.
Yanma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yanma Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yanma is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanma? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,101,507th most widely held last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 32,826,783 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 89 percent of Yanma are found; 89 percent are found in West Africa and 83 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yanma is also the 184,039th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 1,737 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 181 people, or 1 in 978,689. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Niger, where 91 percent are found, Borno, where 6 percent are found and Oyo, where 2 percent are found. Besides Nigeria Yanma occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 6 percent are found and Niger, where 3 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
- 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 Yanma
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