Yedan Surname
Approximately 4,710 people bear this surname
Yedan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 4,634 | 1:3,960 | 483 |
| Ivory Coast | 49 | 1:470,841 | 15,263 |
| Turkey | 18 | 1:4,323,412 | 102,143 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Yédan (1) are calculated separately.
Yedan (182) may also be a first name.
Yedan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yedan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yedan (Hindi: येदन, Marathi: येदन, Tibetan: ཡིད་ལྡན་) is carried by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Yédan. Click here for other potential spellings of Yedan.
How Common Is The Last Name Yedan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 100,308th most commonly used family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,547,250 people. Yedan is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yedan live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 87 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 675,152nd most commonly used first name at a global level It is held by 182 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 4,634 people, or 1 in 3,960. In Burkina Faso Yedan is most numerous in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 79 percent are found, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 14 percent are found and Centre Region, where 4 percent are found. Excluding Burkina Faso it exists in 8 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Turkey, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yedan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yedan in the Hindi language | ||
| येदन | yedana | - |
| Yedan in the Marathi language | ||
| येदन | yedana | - |
| Yedan in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡིད་ལྡན་ | yiden | 60 |
| ཡིད་ལྡན། | yiden | 40 |
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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 Yedan
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