Yoro Surname
Approximately 25,235 people bear this surname
Yoro Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 16,601 | 1:1,390 | 139 |
| Benin | 3,912 | 1:2,642 | 319 |
| Philippines | 1,739 | 1:58,216 | 9,779 |
| Niger | 391 | 1:49,084 | 2,467 |
| Mali | 387 | 1:43,848 | 1,206 |
| France | 356 | 1:186,581 | 29,031 |
| United States | 296 | 1:1,224,523 | 86,796 |
| Burkina Faso | 293 | 1:62,635 | 2,511 |
| Nigeria | 262 | 1:676,117 | 31,456 |
| Cameroon | 183 | 1:113,492 | 13,142 |
| Japan | 168 | 1:760,978 | 17,707 |
| Turkey | 138 | 1:563,923 | 30,928 |
| Tanzania | 107 | 1:494,781 | 33,101 |
| Papua New Guinea | 88 | 1:92,656 | 12,367 |
| Mauritania | 74 | 1:55,336 | 3,965 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Indonesia | 46 | 1:2,874,982 | 163,265 |
| Canada | 17 | 1:2,167,388 | 133,872 |
| Cambodia | 13 | 1:1,191,319 | 5,802 |
| Senegal | 11 | 1:1,325,395 | 3,666 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Honduras | 4 | 1:2,204,110 | 6,397 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| South Sudan | 4 | 1:2,853,769 | 1,758 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Yôro (1) are calculated separately.
Yoro (34,934) may also be a first name.
Yoro Demographics
Average Yoro Salary in
United States
$42,497 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Yoro Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yoro Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yoro (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺮﻭ, Russian: Йоро, Tibetan: ཡོ་རོགས།) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It may also occur as a variant: Yôro. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yoro? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 21,587th most frequently used surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 288,787 people. The last name Yoro occurs mostly in Africa, where 74 percent of Yoro live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yoro is also the 24,773rd most frequently occurring forename in the world, held by 34,934 people.
The surname is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 16,601 people, or 1 in 1,390. In The Ivory Coast Yoro is most common in: Montagnes District, where 40 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 22 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 15 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 59 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 16 percent live and The Philippines, where 7 percent live.
Yoro Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Yoro surname is predominantly Christian (83%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Yoro last name are 6.47% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 59.7% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Yoro earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 1.51% less than the national average, earning $42,497 USD per year and in Canada they earn 25.96% less than the national average, earning $36,785 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yoro Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yoro in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡོ་རོགས། | yorok | - |
| Yoro in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺮﻭ | yrw | 52.38 |
| ﻳﻮﺭﻭ | ywrw | 33.33 |
| ﻳﻮﺭ | ywr | 14.29 |
| Yoro in the Russian language | ||
| Йоро | joro | - |
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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
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- 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 Yoro
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