Yelam Surname
Approximately 595 people bear this surname
Yelam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 573 | 1:1,338,683 | 52,093 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yelam (149) may also be a first name.
Yelam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yelam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yelam (Hindi: येलम, Marathi: येलम) is most common in India. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yelam? popularity and diffusion
It is the 540,057th most frequently held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 12,247,976 people. Yelam occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Yelam live; 96 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 754,880th most commonly held first name throughout the world It is held by 149 people.
The last name Yelam is most frequent in India, where it is held by 573 people, or 1 in 1,338,683. In India Yelam is mostly concentrated in: Maharashtra, where 57 percent reside, Andhra Pradesh, where 30 percent reside and Telangana, where 12 percent reside. Excluding India this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Malaysia, where 2 percent reside and Indonesia, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yelam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yelam in the Hindi language | ||
| येलम | yelama | - |
| Yelam in the Marathi language | ||
| येलम | yelama | 71.75 |
| येलाम | yelama | 16.2 |
| येळाम | yelama | 10.17 |
| एलम | elama | 1.13 |
| येडाम | yedama | 0.38 |
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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 Yelam
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