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 is more commonly found in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ankah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 166,465th most common last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 2,802,902 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ankah live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ankah is also the 2,239,265th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 23 people.
The surname Ankah is most numerous in Ghana, where it is held by 2,355 people, or 1 in 11,474. Other than Ghana this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 6 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
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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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