Yinkah Surname
Approximately 289 people bear this surname
Yinkah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yinkah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yinkah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yinkah is found most frequently in Ghana. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Yinkah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yinkah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 917,199th most commonly held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 25,216,422 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Yinkah reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Yinkah is most numerous in Ghana, where it is held by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Outside of Ghana this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 3 percent reside and England, where 1 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
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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
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