Yarkpah Surname
Approximately 994 people bear this surname
Yarkpah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 993 | 1:4,440 | 548 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yarkpah (26) may also be a first name.
Yarkpah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yarkpah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yarkpah has its highest incidence in Liberia. It can appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yarkpah? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yarkpah is the 363,374th most common surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 7,331,535 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yarkpah live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Anglo-West Africa. Yarkpah is also the 2,084,397th most widely held first name globally, held by 26 people.
This last name is most frequent in Liberia, where it is carried by 993 people, or 1 in 4,440. In Liberia Yarkpah is primarily concentrated in: Nimba County, where 72 percent reside, Montserrado County, where 10 percent reside and Bong County, where 9 percent reside. Not including Liberia it is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Yarkpah
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