Awanga Surname
Approximately 455 people bear this surname
Awanga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 217 | 1:95,710 | 11,410 |
| Uganda | 104 | 1:375,378 | 24,063 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Nigeria | 33 | 1:5,367,962 | 136,856 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Awanga (105) may also be a first name.
Awanga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awanga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Awanga occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Awanga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 660,498th most frequently held last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 16,016,584 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Awanga live; 62 percent live in Central Africa and 62 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 920,134th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 105 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 217 people, or 1 in 95,710. In Cameroon Awanga is most numerous in: West Region, where 60 percent live, Centre Region, where 18 percent live and Northwest Region, where 9 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 23 percent live and The DR Congo, where 15 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 Awanga
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