Bankah Surname
Approximately 513 people bear this surname
Bankah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Bankah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bankah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bankah is found most in Ghana. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bankah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bankah is the 604,614th most prevalent last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 14,205,743 people. The surname Bankah occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Bankah live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Bankah is most frequent in Ghana, where it is borne by 485 people, or 1 in 55,713. Aside from Ghana this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 3 percent are found and Liberia, 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 Bankah
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