Yara Surname
Approximately 71,335 people bear this surname
Yara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 23,560 | 1:7,583 | 616 |
| India | 12,647 | 1:60,652 | 4,131 |
| Colombia | 8,297 | 1:5,758 | 804 |
| Egypt | 6,254 | 1:14,700 | 1,756 |
| Burkina Faso | 5,274 | 1:3,480 | 427 |
| Japan | 3,813 | 1:33,529 | 3,154 |
| Mali | 3,678 | 1:4,614 | 317 |
| Philippines | 1,505 | 1:67,268 | 11,518 |
| Iraq | 739 | 1:47,391 | 1,919 |
| Ivory Coast | 619 | 1:37,272 | 2,465 |
| Nigeria | 557 | 1:318,030 | 17,522 |
| Morocco | 477 | 1:72,277 | 12,260 |
| United States | 461 | 1:786,245 | 60,824 |
| Papua New Guinea | 395 | 1:20,642 | 2,191 |
| Niger | 394 | 1:48,711 | 2,453 |
| Mauritania | 343 | 1:11,938 | 1,179 |
| Brazil | 285 | 1:751,138 | 27,388 |
| Indonesia | 213 | 1:620,888 | 49,115 |
| Benin | 193 | 1:53,552 | 6,715 |
| Ukraine | 183 | 1:248,758 | 32,662 |
| Guinea | 178 | 1:66,482 | 750 |
| Cameroon | 144 | 1:144,230 | 16,009 |
| Kuwait | 116 | 1:32,765 | 4,071 |
| Peru | 116 | 1:274,001 | 10,785 |
| Iran | 114 | 1:673,531 | 35,891 |
| Dominican Republic | 100 | 1:104,329 | 4,466 |
| United Arab Emirates | 85 | 1:107,791 | 9,280 |
| Thailand | 77 | 1:917,381 | 143,219 |
| Spain | 51 | 1:916,707 | 35,562 |
| Afghanistan | 45 | 1:714,515 | 7,832 |
| Turkey | 43 | 1:1,809,801 | 65,502 |
| Algeria | 40 | 1:965,789 | 42,026 |
| Angola | 36 | 1:749,700 | 2,649 |
| England | 35 | 1:1,591,945 | 67,242 |
| Argentina | 24 | 1:1,780,976 | 92,783 |
| Venezuela | 22 | 1:1,372,913 | 18,810 |
| Kenya | 17 | 1:2,716,465 | 37,471 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Uganda | 15 | 1:2,602,619 | 75,106 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| Aruba | 9 | 1:11,497 | 1,511 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 1:3,349,249 | 20,155 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Cuba | 6 | 1:1,920,453 | 8,345 |
| Mexico | 5 | 1:24,825,241 | 58,251 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Bolivia | 4 | 1:2,654,108 | 7,945 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Jordan | 4 | 1:2,210,609 | 20,372 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Nepal | 2 | 1:14,240,478 | 17,812 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Syria | 2 | 1:9,650,511 | 17,817 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
The alternate forms: Yára (1) & Yará (1) are calculated separately.
Yara (281,343) may also be a first name.
Yara Demographics
Average Male Yara Height
174 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Yara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yara Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yara (Arabic: يارا, Bengali: য়ারা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﺭ, Hindi: यारा, Marathi: यारा, Oriya: ୟାରା, Tibetan: ཡ་ར་) is held by more people in Pakistan than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Yára or Yará. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yara? popularity and diffusion
Yara is the 7,952nd most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 102,159 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 60 percent of Yara live; 51 percent live in South Asia and 33 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 3,737th most commonly held forename at a global level, held by 281,343 people.
The last name is most widespread in Pakistan, where it is held by 23,560 people, or 1 in 7,583. In Pakistan it is most numerous in: Punjab, where 100 percent are found, Sindh, where 0 percent are found and Balochistan, where 0 percent are found. Apart from Pakistan this surname exists in 87 countries. It also occurs in India, where 18 percent are found and Colombia, where 12 percent are found.
Yara Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Yara has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Yara last name grew 2,426 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Yara Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Yara last name is chiefly Latin Catholic (100%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (67%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Yara last name are 11.83% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 65.06% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Yara earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 11.87% more than the national average, earning S/. 21,686 per year; in Colombia they earn 5.48% less than the national average, earning $21,458,200 COP per year; in United States they earn 6.07% less than the national average, earning $40,528 USD per year and in Canada they earn 45.08% less than the national average, earning $27,287 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yara in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡ་ར་ | yara | - |
| Yara in the Bengali language | ||
| য়ারা | yara | - |
| Yara in the Oriya language | ||
| ୟାରା | yara | 96.38 |
| ୟାର | yara | 0.72 |
| ୟରା | yara | 0.72 |
| େୟରା | eyara | 0.72 |
| ରାଜୁ | raju | 0.72 |
| Yara in the Marathi language | ||
| यारा | yara | 95.83 |
| यरा | yara | 4.17 |
| Yara in the Hindi language | ||
| यारा | yara | 77.78 |
| शायरा | sayara | 6.35 |
| यरा | yara | 4.76 |
| यार | yara | 3.17 |
| शयारा | sayara | 3.17 |
| यात्रा | yatra | 1.59 |
| Yara in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﺭ | yar | 45.05 |
| ﻳﺎﺭﺍ | yara | 37.84 |
| ﻳﺎﺭﻩ | yarh | 15.32 |
| ﻳﺮﻩ | yrh | 0.9 |
| Yara in the Arabic language | ||
| يارا | yara | - |
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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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- 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 Yara
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