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

The surname Yastreba (Russian: Ястреба) is more commonly found in Ukraine than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Yastreba? popularity and diffusion

It is the 996,001st most frequently held surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 28,356,210 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Yastreba reside; 95 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 95 percent reside in East Slavic Europe.

The surname Yastreba is most commonly occurring in Ukraine, where it is held by 234 people, or 1 in 194,541. In Ukraine it is most numerous in: Poltava Oblast, where 59 percent are found, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where 10 percent are found and Mykolaiv Oblast, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Ukraine this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 7 percent are found and Bulgaria, where 1 percent are found.

Yastreba Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the Yastreba surname is primarily 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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