Yaraba Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Yaraba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Yaraba (992) may also be a first name.
Yaraba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yaraba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yaraba is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Yaraba click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yaraba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,427,875th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Yaraba live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 80 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yaraba is also the 255,582nd most common given name globally. It is borne by 992 people.
Yaraba is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 12 people, or 1 in 14,761,896. In Nigeria Yaraba is primarily found in: Sokoto, where 42 percent live, Kogi, where 33 percent live and Bauchi, where 8 percent live. Barring Nigeria it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 25 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 5 percent live.
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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 Yaraba
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