Yekan Surname
Approximately 163 people bear this surname
Yekan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 95 | 1:242,855 | 9,751 |
| Iran | 53 | 1:1,448,727 | 58,350 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yekan (49) may also be a first name.
Yekan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yekan (Marathi: येकां) is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Yekan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,359,010th most commonly held family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 44,708,871 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 57 percent of Yekan reside; 56 percent reside in West Africa and 42 percent reside in Mande Africa. It is also the 1,430,306th most numerous given name at a global level, held by 49 people.
Yekan is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 95 people, or 1 in 242,855. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Montagnes District, where 81 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 13 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 2 percent reside. Other than The Ivory Coast Yekan occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Iran, where 33 percent reside and Nigeria, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yekan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yekan in the Marathi language | ||
| येकां | yekam | - |
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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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- 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 Yekan
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