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 surname Yorah is found in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yorah? popularity and diffusion
Yorah is the 3,485,539th most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. The surname is predominantly found 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 widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 15 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 28 people, or 1 in 741,752. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Northwest Region, where 100 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in India, where 3 percent reside and Liberia, where 3 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 Yorah
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