Yokai Surname
Approximately 258 people bear this surname
Yokai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 163 | 1:784,321 | 17,959 |
| Papua New Guinea | 82 | 1:99,436 | 13,359 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
Yokai (64) may also be a first name.
Yokai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yokai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yokai (Russian: Ёкаи) is more frequently found in Japan than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of Yokai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yokai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 993,593rd most widely held last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 28,246,302 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 65 percent of Yokai live; 64 percent live in East Asia and 63 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Yokai is also the 1,223,525th most widely held first name on earth It is held by 64 people.
Yokai is most frequently occurring in Japan, where it is held by 163 people, or 1 in 784,321. In Japan Yokai is mostly concentrated in: Kagoshima Prefecture, where 67 percent are found, Osaka Prefecture, where 25 percent are found and Hyōgo Prefecture, where 2 percent are found. Beside Japan this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 32 percent are found and Tunisia, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yokai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yokai in the Russian language | ||
| Ёкаи | ekai | - |
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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 Yokai
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