Ankah Surname
Approximately 2,600 people bear this surname
Ankah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 2,355 | 1:11,474 | 1,518 |
| Cameroon | 158 | 1:131,450 | 14,816 |
| England | 29 | 1:1,921,312 | 76,208 |
| Venezuela | 20 | 1:1,510,204 | 20,059 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1:3,054,091 | 90,853 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Ankah (23) may also be a first name.
Ankah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ankah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ankah occurs in Ghana more than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Ankah.
How Common Is The Last Name Ankah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 166,465th most commonly occurring surname on earth, held by around 1 in 2,802,902 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ankah are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ankah is also the 2,239,265th most frequently occurring forename world-wide It is held by 23 people.
It is most prevalent in Ghana, where it is held by 2,355 people, or 1 in 11,474. Without taking into account Ghana this surname occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 6 percent live and England, where 1 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 Ankah
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