Dankaro Surname

461,659th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 731 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Dankaro Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dankaro Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria7081:250,20214,469
England121:4,643,172139,951
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Niger21:9,596,00886,358
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Wales11:3,094,53244,023

Dankaro (77) may also be a first name.

Dankaro Last Name Facts

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

The last name Dankaro is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Dankaro? popularity and diffusion

It is the 461,659th most commonly occurring surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,969,283 people. The last name Dankaro occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Dankaro live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Dankaro is also the 1,100,117th most widely held forename globally, held by 77 people.

The surname Dankaro is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 708 people, or 1 in 250,202. In Nigeria Dankaro is primarily concentrated in: Taraba, where 41 percent live, Benue, where 29 percent live and Plateau, where 9 percent live. Other than Nigeria Dankaro occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in England, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 1 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 Dankaro
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