Yonga Surname
Approximately 5,571 people bear this surname
Yonga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3,172 | 1:6,548 | 805 |
| DR Congo | 1,033 | 1:71,519 | 8,362 |
| South Africa | 288 | 1:188,117 | 20,469 |
| Turkey | 245 | 1:317,638 | 20,521 |
| Papua New Guinea | 221 | 1:36,895 | 4,430 |
| Burkina Faso | 166 | 1:110,555 | 3,319 |
| Kenya | 119 | 1:388,066 | 22,003 |
| Tanzania | 108 | 1:490,200 | 32,950 |
| Ivory Coast | 55 | 1:419,477 | 14,125 |
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| United States | 22 | 1:16,475,406 | 557,260 |
| Uganda | 21 | 1:1,859,013 | 62,128 |
| Chad | 9 | 1:1,510,244 | 5,402 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Cambodia | 8 | 1:1,935,893 | 7,100 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Nepal | 6 | 1:4,746,826 | 12,065 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
Yonga (1,237) may also be a first name.
Yonga Demographics
Yonga Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Yonga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yonga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yonga (Russian: Ёнга) is found in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Yonga.
How Common Is The Last Name Yonga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yonga is the 86,455th most frequently held last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,308,122 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Yonga reside; 62 percent reside in Central Africa and 55 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 224,766th most frequently used first name in the world, borne by 1,237 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 3,172 people, or 1 in 6,548. In Cameroon Yonga is primarily concentrated in: Littoral Region, where 25 percent reside, Far North Region, where 23 percent reside and Centre Region, where 22 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname exists in 35 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 19 percent reside and South Africa, where 5 percent reside.
Yonga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is predominantly Muslim (50%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Yonga surname are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 60% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Yonga earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 19.89% less than the national average, earning R 190,380 per year and in United States they earn 13.32% less than the national average, earning $37,400 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yonga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yonga in the Russian language | ||
| Ёнга | enga | - |
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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 Yonga
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