Yorkor Surname
Approximately 199 people bear this surname
Yorkor Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 183 | 1:24,090 | 2,373 |
| Nigeria | 15 | 1:11,809,517 | 219,567 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Yorkor (367) may also be a first name.
Yorkor Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yorkor Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yorkor is found most frequently in Liberia. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Yorkor.
How Common Is The Last Name Yorkor? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yorkor is the 1,189,614th most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 36,620,834 people. Yorkor occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Yorkor reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 453,982nd most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 367 people.
The surname is most widely held in Liberia, where it is held by 183 people, or 1 in 24,090. In Liberia it is most frequent in: Montserrado County, where 55 percent reside, Lofa County, where 18 percent reside and Margibi County, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Liberia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 8 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkour | 92 | 8 | / |
| Ayorkor | 92 | 1 | / |
| Jorkor | 83 | 86 | / |
| Iorkor | 83 | 80 | / |
| Yarkor | 83 | 44 | / |
| Yorkar | 83 | 2 | / |
| Yorkur | 83 | 1 | / |
| Yorkurt | 77 | 17 | / |
| Ojorkor | 77 | 1 | / |
| Erkor | 73 | 9 | / |
| Yrkar | 73 | 1 | / |
| Jorkar | 67 | 1,113 | / |
| Yarkar | 67 | 154 | / |
| Iorkur | 67 | 35 | / |
| Iorkar | 67 | 25 | / |
| Jirkor | 67 | 22 | / |
| Gerkor | 67 | 12 | / |
| Girkor | 67 | 2 | / |
| Erkore | 67 | 2 | / |
| Yarkur | 67 | 1 | / |
| Erkort | 67 | 1 | / |
| Iorcor | 67 | 1 | / |
| Yrekar | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ayrkar | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Yorkor
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