Kentah Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Kentah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 15 | 1:1,384,605 | 80,726 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kentah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kentah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kentah is most common in Cameroon. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kentah.
How Common Is The Last Name Kentah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,908,606th most commonly held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. Kentah is mostly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Kentah live; 81 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
Kentah is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is held by 15 people, or 1 in 1,384,605. In Cameroon Kentah is most numerous in: Northwest Region, where 80 percent reside, Adamawa Region, where 13 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 7 percent reside. Not including Cameroon this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 6 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
- 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 Kentah
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