Dakinah Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Dakinah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 61 | 1:72,271 | 6,117 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
Dakinah (247) may also be a first name.
Dakinah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dakinah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dakinah is held by more people in Liberia than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Dakinah.
How Common Is The Last Name Dakinah? popularity and diffusion
Dakinah is the 2,273,756th most frequent surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 87 percent of Dakinah are found; 87 percent are found in West Africa and 87 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa. Dakinah is also the 567,531st most widely held forename world-wide It is held by 247 people.
The last name Dakinah is most widely held in Liberia, where it is held by 61 people, or 1 in 72,271. In Liberia Dakinah is mostly found in: Montserrado County, where 67 percent are found, Bong County, where 15 percent are found and Gbarpolu County, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Liberia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Denmark, where 7 percent are found and The United States, where 6 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 Dakinah
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