Yegba Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Yegba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 44 | 1:100,194 | 7,994 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 1:865,378 | 58,754 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Yegba (20) may also be a first name.
Yegba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yegba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yegba occurs most in Liberia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Yegba.
How Common Is The Last Name Yegba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yegba is the 1,894,523rd most numerous family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 75,911,937 people. Yegba occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Yegba are found; 52 percent are found in West Africa and 47 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,446,817th most common given name throughout the world, held by 20 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Liberia, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 100,194. In Liberia Yegba is most frequent in: River Gee County, where 75 percent are found, Montserrado County, where 23 percent are found and Lofa County, where 2 percent are found. Other than Liberia this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 22 percent are found.
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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 Yegba
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