Yilme Surname
Approximately 57 people bear this surname
Yilme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 54 | 1:3,280,421 | 99,135 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Yilme (31) may also be a first name.
Yilme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yilme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yilme occurs most in Nigeria. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Yilme click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yilme? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,555,468th most common family name internationally, held by around 1 in 127,851,683 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Yilme reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yilme is also the 1,874,099th most prevalent first name internationally, held by 31 people.
The last name Yilme is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 3,280,421. In Nigeria Yilme is mostly concentrated in: Plateau, where 65 percent live, Kaduna, where 15 percent live and Lagos, where 4 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 2 percent live and England, where 2 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 Yilme
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