Yastreba Surname

996,001st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 257 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Ukraine

Yastreba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yastreba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine2341:194,54126,383
Russia181:8,006,836292,169
Bulgaria31:2,326,30254,089
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010

Yastreba Last Name Facts

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

Yastreba (Russian: Ястреба) occurs more in Ukraine more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Yastreba? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 996,001st most frequently held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 28,356,210 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Yastreba are found; 95 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 95 percent are found in East Slavic Europe.

The last name is most numerous in Ukraine, where it is borne by 234 people, or 1 in 194,541. In Ukraine Yastreba is most common in: Poltava Oblast, where 59 percent are found, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where 10 percent are found and Mykolaiv Oblast, where 9 percent are found. Barring Ukraine this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 7 percent are found and Bulgaria, where 1 percent are found.

Yastreba Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is predominantly Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yastreboa941/
Yastrebo882/
Yastreva882/
Jastreba881/
Yastrebi881/
Yastrebou822/
Jastrebe751/
Jastrebić7132/
Jastrebou716/
Easterbay711/
Jastrèbe631/
Gaayatraibai601/

Yastreba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yastreba in the Russian language
Ястребаastreba-

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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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  • 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 Yastreba
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