Yekai Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Yekai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 22 | 1:200,388 | 13,260 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 1:388,272 | 50,829 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
Yekai (56) may also be a first name.
Yekai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yekai is found most frequently in Liberia. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,776,799th most commonly held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 47 percent of Yekai are found; 47 percent are found in West Africa and 45 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa. Yekai is also the 1,321,957th most frequently used first name globally, borne by 56 people.
The surname Yekai is most commonly held in Liberia, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 200,388. In Liberia it is primarily concentrated in: Bong County, where 68 percent live and Grand Bassa County, where 32 percent live. Besides Liberia Yekai exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 43 percent live and Brazil, where 2 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
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- 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 Yekai
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