Yosei Surname
Approximately 84 people bear this surname
Yosei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 77 | 1:599,739 | 28,092 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Yosei (1,401) may also be a first name.
Yosei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yosei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yosei is most common in Kenya. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yosei? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yosei is the 2,047,559th most commonly used last name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 86,756,499 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Yosei live; 92 percent live in East Africa and 87 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 208,902nd most commonly held given name throughout the world. It is borne by 1,401 people.
Yosei is most common in Kenya, where it is borne by 77 people, or 1 in 599,739. In Kenya Yosei is most frequent in: Uasin Gishu County, where 53 percent live, Bomet County, where 36 percent live and Kericho County, where 5 percent live. Aside from Kenya this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Japan, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 2 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 Yosei
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