Yekame Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Yekame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 55 | 1:187,920 | 18,137 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yekame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekame Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yekame is most common in Benin. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekame? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,530,696th most commonly used last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. The last name Yekame is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yekame reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 55 people, or 1 in 187,920. In Benin it is primarily found in: Zou Department, where 62 percent are found, Atlantique Department, where 33 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 5 percent are found. Beside Benin Yekame occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Ethiopia, where 2 percent are found and Nigeria, where 2 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 Yekame
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