Yorah Surname
Approximately 32 people bear this surname
Yorah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yorah (15) may also be a first name.
Yorah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yorah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yorah occurs most in Cameroon. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Yorah.
How Common Is The Last Name Yorah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,485,539th most frequently occurring family name in the world, held by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Yorah reside; 88 percent reside in Central Africa and 88 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most common forename in the world, borne by 15 people.
Yorah is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 28 people, or 1 in 741,752. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 3 percent are found and Liberia, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Yorah
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis