Yoray Surname
Approximately 281 people bear this surname
Yoray Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 280 | 1:114,833 | 2,780 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yoray (20) may also be a first name.
Yoray Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yoray Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yoray is held by more people in Afghanistan than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yoray? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 935,326th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 25,934,327 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Yoray live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 100 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Yoray is also the 2,446,817th most numerous given name worldwide, borne by 20 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Afghanistan, where it is held by 280 people, or 1 in 114,833. In Afghanistan Yoray is most common in: Balkh, where 24 percent live, Jowzjan, where 20 percent live and Faryab, where 18 percent live. Outside of Afghanistan this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 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 Yoray
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