Yoube Surname
Approximately 834 people bear this surname
Yoube Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 621 | 1:6,594 | 750 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Ivory Coast | 33 | 1:699,128 | 19,606 |
| Liberia | 16 | 1:275,533 | 16,331 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
The alternate forms: Youbé (1) are calculated separately.
Yoube (1,169) may also be a first name.
Yoube Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yoube Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yoube (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺐ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Youbé. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yoube? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yoube is the 416,960th most commonly held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 8,738,065 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Yoube reside; 79 percent reside in West Africa and 75 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Yoube is also the 232,342nd most numerous first name globally It is held by 1,169 people.
It is most commonly used in Mauritania, where it is carried by 621 people, or 1 in 6,594. In Mauritania Yoube is most common in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 45 percent are found, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 16 percent are found and Assaba Region, where 10 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania this surname is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 16 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yoube Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yoube in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺐ | yb | 88.32 |
| ﻳﺒﻪ | ybh | 5.94 |
| ﻳﻮﺏ | ywb | 4.95 |
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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 Yoube
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