Faanu Surname
Approximately 410 people bear this surname
Faanu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Maldives | 105 | 1:3,849 | 372 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| American Samoa | 6 | 1:9,293 | 1,961 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Faanu (12) may also be a first name.
Faanu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Faanu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Faanu occurs more in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Faanu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 713,660th most common surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 17,774,502 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 72 percent of Faanu live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 72 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most frequent given name world-wide It is held by 12 people.
The last name is most frequent in Ghana, where it is held by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Without taking into account Ghana this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Maldives, where 26 percent live and Nigeria, where 4 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 Faanu
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