Yaquba Surname

1,391,595th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 157 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Yaquba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Yaquba 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
Nigeria1511:1,173,13147,714
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220

Yaquba (219) may also be a first name.

Yaquba Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Yaquba Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Yaquba (Marathi: याकुब) is found most in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Yaquba? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,391,595th most widely held last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 46,417,490 people. The surname Yaquba is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Yaquba live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yaquba is also the 609,814th most common first name at a global level, borne by 219 people.

This surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 151 people, or 1 in 1,173,131. In Nigeria Yaquba is most frequent in: Kano, where 28 percent live, Kaduna, where 15 percent live and Bauchi, where 13 percent live. Not including Nigeria this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Afghanistan, where 1 percent live and Australia, where 1 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
Yaaquba929/
Yaqubah921/
Yaqba912/
Yaaqba831/
Yaoucba771/
Yakba7322/
Yaquehua712/
Yakbah67145/
Yagbua6768/
Yakbat671/
Yoakba671/
Yakeba671/
Yakhua671/
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Yaquba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yaquba in the Marathi language
याकुबyakuba50
यकूबाyakuba50

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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 Yaquba
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