Yelai Surname
Approximately 107 people bear this surname
Yelai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 62 | 1:378,141 | 2,960 |
| India | 41 | 1:18,708,912 | 282,725 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Yelai (53) may also be a first name.
Yelai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yelai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yelai (Marathi: येळाई) is most common in Taiwan. It may also occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yelai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,775,494th most prevalent family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 68,107,906 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Yelai live; 60 percent live in East Asia and 60 percent live in Sino-East Asia. Yelai is also the 1,366,219th most frequently occurring forename globally, borne by 53 people.
Yelai is most commonly held in Taiwan, where it is borne by 62 people, or 1 in 378,141. In Taiwan Yelai is mostly concentrated in: Chiayi County, where 16 percent reside, Taoyuan City, where 16 percent reside and New Taipei City, where 13 percent reside. Besides Taiwan this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in India, where 38 percent reside and China, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yelai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yelai in the Marathi language | ||
| येळाई | yela'i | 70.13 |
| येलाई | yela'i | 23.38 |
| येळाइ | yela'i | 2.6 |
| येळै | yelai | 2.6 |
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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 Yelai
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