Yemai Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Yemai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Yemai (11) may also be a first name.
Yemai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yemai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yemai is most common in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yemai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,057,639th most commonly used last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 485,836,394 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 67 percent of Yemai reside; 67 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world, held by 11 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 10 people, or 1 in 17,714,276. In Nigeria Yemai is most frequent in: Bayelsa, where 100 percent live. Aside from Nigeria it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent live and Pakistan, where 7 percent live.
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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 Yemai
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