Yawale Surname
Approximately 13,630 people bear this surname
Yawale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10,227 | 1:17,321 | 1,646 |
| Niger | 2,814 | 1:6,820 | 566 |
| India | 436 | 1:1,759,324 | 62,948 |
| Papua New Guinea | 125 | 1:65,230 | 8,500 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Oman | 2 | 1:1,843,986 | 9,590 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
The alternate forms: Yawalé (2) are calculated separately.
Yawale (8,834) may also be a first name.
Yawale Demographics
Yawale Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Yawale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yawale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yawale (Marathi: यावले) is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as: Yawalé. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yawale? popularity and diffusion
It is the 38,583rd most prevalent surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 534,670 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Yawale live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yawale is also the 66,524th most commonly occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 8,834 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 10,227 people, or 1 in 17,321. In Nigeria Yawale is most frequent in: Jigawa, where 30 percent reside, Kano, where 22 percent reside and Bauchi, where 11 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 21 percent reside and India, where 3 percent reside.
Yawale Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Muslim (98%) in Nigeria.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yawale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yawale in the Marathi language | ||
| यावले | yavale | 61.36 |
| येवले | yevale | 34.92 |
| यवले | yavale | 2.48 |
| येवळे | yevale | 0.41 |
| ऐवले | aivale | 0.41 |
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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 Yawale
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