Yegbe Surname
Approximately 1,742 people bear this surname
Yegbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 901 | 1:29,990 | 3,547 |
| Benin | 439 | 1:23,544 | 3,163 |
| Ivory Coast | 266 | 1:86,734 | 4,640 |
| DR Congo | 89 | 1:830,108 | 57,152 |
| Nigeria | 34 | 1:5,210,081 | 134,475 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yegbe (156) may also be a first name.
Yegbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yegbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yegbe is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Yegbe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yegbe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 231,902nd most frequently held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,183,436 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Yegbe are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 81 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 735,679th most frequently occurring first name internationally, held by 156 people.
The surname Yegbe is most commonly held in Ghana, where it is borne by 901 people, or 1 in 29,990. Excluding Ghana it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 25 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 15 percent live.
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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 Yegbe
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