Commissioner Surname

1,041,601st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 241 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Botswana

Commissioner Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Commissioner Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria2191:808,87136,014
Botswana171:128,64318,229
India41:191,766,3461,073,940
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110

Commissioner (219) may also be a first name.

Commissioner Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Commissioner Come From? nationality or country of origin

Commissioner occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Commissioner? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,041,601st most widely held last name globally It is held by around 1 in 30,238,780 people. Commissioner is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Commissioner are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 609,814th most widely held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 219 people.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 219 people, or 1 in 808,871. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 52 percent live, Delta, where 17 percent live and Ondo, where 9 percent live. Apart from Nigeria Commissioner occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Botswana, where 7 percent live and India, where 2 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
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  • 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 Commissioner
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