Yemah Surname
Approximately 68 people bear this surname
Yemah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 29 | 1:4,560,317 | 223,141 |
| Liberia | 29 | 1:152,018 | 10,911 |
| Mauritania | 4 | 1:1,023,716 | 25,172 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yemah (189) may also be a first name.
Yemah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yemah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yemah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻤﺎﻩ) is carried by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yemah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yemah is the 2,312,869th most prevalent family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 107,169,793 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 56 percent of Yemah reside; 53 percent reside in West Africa and 43 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 661,310th most widespread first name at a global level It is held by 189 people.
Yemah is most commonly held in Indonesia, where it is borne by 29 people, or 1 in 4,560,317. In Indonesia Yemah is most common in: East Java, where 93 percent reside, Central Sulawesi, where 3 percent reside and Papua, where 3 percent reside. Other than Indonesia this last name is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 43 percent reside and Mauritania, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yemah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yemah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻤﺎﻩ | ymah | - |
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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 Yemah
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