Yobes Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Yobes Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Yobes (98) may also be a first name.
Yobes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yobes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yobes occurs in Papua New Guinea more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yobes? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,772,636th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 428,679,172 people. The surname Yobes occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 71 percent of Yobes are found; 71 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 71 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Yobes is also the 956,749th most frequently used given name world-wide It is held by 98 people.
The surname Yobes is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 679,476. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: Enga, where 83 percent reside and Jiwaka, where 17 percent reside. Aside from Papua New Guinea it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 24 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 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
- 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 Yobes
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