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
Yemai is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yemai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 5,057,639th most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 485,836,394 people. Yemai is predominantly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Yemai live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yemai is also the 3,487,849th most frequent first name globally, held by 11 people.
It is most common 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 reside. Excluding Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent reside and Pakistan, where 7 percent reside.
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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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