Kaigama Surname
Approximately 7,575 people bear this surname
Kaigama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 4,367 | 1:40,564 | 3,231 |
| Cameroon | 1,817 | 1:11,430 | 1,551 |
| Niger | 896 | 1:21,420 | 1,325 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
The alternate forms: Kaïgama (9) & Kaîgama (5) are calculated separately.
Kaigama (4,397) may also be a first name.
Kaigama Demographics
Kaigama Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Kaigama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaigama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kaigama is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Kaïgama or Kaîgama. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaigama? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kaigama is the 65,876th most commonly used family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 962,052 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kaigama live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kaigama is also the 104,027th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 4,397 people.
Kaigama is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 4,367 people, or 1 in 40,564. In Nigeria Kaigama is mostly concentrated in: Yobe, where 26 percent reside, Borno, where 23 percent reside and Taraba, where 20 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria it occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 24 percent reside and Niger, where 12 percent reside.
Kaigama Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Kaigama surname is primarily Muslim (83%) in Nigeria.
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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 Kaigama
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