Yerah Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Yerah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 42 | 1:97,497 | 6,070 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Yerah (58) may also be a first name.
Yerah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yerah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yerah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺮﻋﺎﻩ, Marathi: येराह) is borne by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Yerah.
How Common Is The Last Name Yerah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,776,799th most widely held last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. Yerah is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yerah reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 86 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Yerah is also the 1,295,729th most frequently used first name globally, held by 58 people.
This last name is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is held by 42 people, or 1 in 97,497. In Mauritania Yerah is mostly found in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 40 percent are found, Brakna Region, where 26 percent are found and Gorgol Region, where 19 percent are found. Beside Mauritania Yerah exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 10 percent are found and Iran, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yerah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yerah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺮﻋﺎﻩ | yrah | - |
| Yerah in the Marathi language | ||
| येराह | yeraha | - |
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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 Yerah
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