Yewong Surname

1,115,011th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 218 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cameroon
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Yewong Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yewong Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cameroon2141:97,05211,537
Bhutan31:205,3461,091
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

Yewong Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Yewong Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Yewong (Tibetan: ཡིད་འོང་།) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Yewong? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,115,011th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 33,429,110 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yewong are found; 98 percent are found in Central Africa and 98 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.

It is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 97,052. In Cameroon Yewong is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 89 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 8 percent are found and Centre Region, where 0 percent are found. Besides Cameroon it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 1 percent are found and India, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yewoung921/
Yewang83458/
Jewong8320/
Yeuong837/
Yebong831/
Jeewong7797/
Juywong778/
Yewheng776/
Jaywong774/
Jeawong774/
Jiewong774/
Jewwong774/
Yuywong772/
Yiewang771/
Joywong771/
Jehwong771/
Evong73513/
Yhaiwong7124/
Jiewhong711/
Jeawoong711/
Evoung67657/
Yebang6732/
Jewang6713/
Ejwang6712/
Jewung676/
Jebong675/
Ehwang673/
Yeuang672/
Yeveng671/
Ewangh671/

Yewong Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yewong in the Tibetan language
ཡིད་འོང་།yiong60
ཡིད་འོང་yiong20
ཡི་དབངས་yiwang20

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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 Yewong
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