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 most common in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Yorah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yorah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,485,539th most commonly held surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. The last name Yorah occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Yorah are found; 88 percent are found in Central Africa and 88 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most commonly occurring first name in the world, borne by 15 people.
It is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 28 people, or 1 in 741,752. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Northwest Region, where 100 percent live. Excluding Cameroon it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in India, where 3 percent live and Liberia, where 3 percent live.
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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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