Amoakwa Surname
Approximately 1,544 people bear this surname
Amoakwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,524 | 1:17,730 | 2,249 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Amoakwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amoakwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amoakwa is held by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Amoakwa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 255,521st most frequent family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 4,719,913 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Amoakwa are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Amoakwa is most numerous in Ghana, where it is held by 1,524 people, or 1 in 17,730. Besides Ghana this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent live and Nigeria, 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
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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 Amoakwa
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