Calabar Surname
Approximately 544 people bear this surname
Calabar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 500 | 1:354,286 | 19,105 |
| Brazil | 44 | 1:4,865,326 | 126,089 |
Calabar (168) may also be a first name.
Calabar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Calabar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Calabar is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Calabar? popularity and diffusion
The surname Calabar is the 577,768th most widely held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,396,224 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Calabar reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 705,855th most widespread forename world-wide, borne by 168 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 500 people, or 1 in 354,286. In Nigeria Calabar is most common in: Bayelsa, where 60 percent live, Delta, where 33 percent live and Rivers, where 2 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this surname occurs in one country. It is also found in Brazil, where 8 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 Calabar
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