Yerimah Surname
Approximately 326 people bear this surname
Yerimah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 226 | 1:783,818 | 35,180 |
| Cameroon | 89 | 1:233,360 | 23,225 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yerimah (48) may also be a first name.
Yerimah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yerimah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yerimah is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yerimah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 842,714th most frequently used family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 22,354,435 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Yerimah reside; 70 percent reside in West Africa and 69 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yerimah is also the 1,448,253rd most widely held first name in the world, borne by 48 people.
The surname is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 226 people, or 1 in 783,818. In Nigeria Yerimah is primarily concentrated in: Edo, where 25 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Delta, where 12 percent live. Apart from Nigeria Yerimah exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 27 percent live and England, where 3 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 Yerimah
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