Yelah Surname
Approximately 64 people bear this surname
Yelah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 47 | 1:441,895 | 37,035 |
| Liberia | 11 | 1:400,776 | 20,681 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 1:35,728,777 | 102,388 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yelah (824) may also be a first name.
Yelah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yelah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yelah has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Yelah.
How Common Is The Last Name Yelah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,394,033rd most frequently used surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 113,867,905 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Yelah reside; 73 percent reside in Central Africa and 73 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 284,631st most numerous first name throughout the world, borne by 824 people.
Yelah is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 47 people, or 1 in 441,895. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Northwest Region, where 94 percent are found, Centre Region, where 2 percent are found and West Region, where 2 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon it is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 17 percent are found and Pakistan, where 8 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 Yelah
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