Yausa Surname
Approximately 348 people bear this surname
Yausa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 212 | 1:835,579 | 36,885 |
| Indonesia | 41 | 1:3,225,590 | 176,839 |
| Papua New Guinea | 41 | 1:198,871 | 27,541 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yausa (178) may also be a first name.
Yausa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yausa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yausa is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yausa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 804,502nd most frequently occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 20,941,224 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 71 percent of Yausa live; 61 percent live in West Africa and 61 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 683,417th most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 178 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 212 people, or 1 in 835,579. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Jigawa, where 17 percent reside, Lagos, where 10 percent reside and Zamfara, where 10 percent reside. Barring Nigeria Yausa occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 12 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 12 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
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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 Yausa
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