John Brown Surname

4,532,898th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 19 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Trinidad and Tobago

John Brown Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

John Brown Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria151:11,809,517219,567
Papua New Guinea31:2,717,906153,458
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013

John Brown Last Name Facts

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

The last name John Brown has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of John Brown.

How Common Is The Last Name John Brown? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 4,532,898th most frequently held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. The last name John Brown is predominantly found in Africa, where 79 percent of John Brown reside; 79 percent reside in West Africa and 79 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 15 people, or 1 in 11,809,517. In Nigeria John Brown is mostly concentrated in: Lagos, where 33 percent reside, Rivers, where 33 percent reside and Akwa Ibom, where 27 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent reside and Trinidad and Tobago, where 5 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 John Brown
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