Gwanje Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Gwanje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 26 | 1:6,813,183 | 158,601 |
| Tanzania | 13 | 1:4,072,432 | 52,852 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Gwanje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gwanje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gwanje is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gwanje? popularity and diffusion
Gwanje is the 3,100,440th most prevalent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name Gwanje occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gwanje reside; 65 percent reside in West Africa and 65 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Gwanje is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 26 people, or 1 in 6,813,183. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Nasarawa, where 96 percent reside and Kaduna, where 4 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 33 percent reside and Cameroon, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Gwanje
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