Yektas Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Cyprus

Yektas Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yektas Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Iran251:3,071,30192,215
Germany31:26,835,153452,368
China21:683,660,78330,601
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

The alternate forms: Yektaş (535) are calculated separately.

Yektas Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Yektas Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Yektas is more commonly found in Iran than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms: Yektaş. For other possible spellings of Yektas click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Yektas? popularity and diffusion

The last name Yektas is the 3,485,539th most frequently occurring surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 84 percent of Yektas reside; 78 percent reside in South Asia and 78 percent reside in Islamic South Asia.

The last name is most widely held in Iran, where it is held by 25 people, or 1 in 3,071,301. In Iran Yektas is most frequent in: Hamadan Province, where 60 percent live, Khuzestan Province, where 32 percent live and Alborz Province, where 4 percent live. Besides Iran this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 9 percent live and China, where 6 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yektaş94535/
Yektash92126/
Ektas9169/
Yektaish861/
Yektaz8314/
Yectas834/
Gektas831/
Goektas7710/
Gektash775/
Ektaş73318/
Eagtas671/
Ayaktaş6290/
Egtos5519/
Jectaz501/

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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 Yektas
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