Lanking Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Lanking Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Lanking Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lanking Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lanking has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Lanking? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 5,391,485th most widespread family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 38 percent of Lanking are found; 38 percent are found in Central Africa and 38 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
Lanking is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 5 people, or 1 in 4,153,814. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 100 percent live. Besides Cameroon it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 31 percent live and The United States, where 23 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langking | 93 | 16 | / |
| Lannking | 93 | 1 | / |
| Lancing | 86 | 245 | / |
| Lonking | 86 | 17 | / |
| Lanqing | 86 | 5 | / |
| Longking | 80 | 74 | / |
| Langkeng | 80 | 30 | / |
| Lanching | 80 | 5 | / |
| Lianqing | 80 | 2 | / |
| Liamking | 80 | 1 | / |
| Lonkiong | 80 | 1 | / |
| Lanquing | 80 | 1 | / |
| Liancing | 80 | 1 | / |
| Hlankeng | 80 | 1 | / |
| Langqing | 80 | 1 | / |
| Leinking | 80 | 0 | / |
| Langching | 75 | 511 | / |
| Launching | 75 | 22 | / |
| Liangqing | 75 | 6 | / |
| Longkieng | 75 | 2 | / |
| Lianching | 75 | 2 | / |
| Langquing | 75 | 1 | / |
| Lonkeng | 71 | 763 | / |
| Glianching | 71 | 21 | / |
| Lanceng | 71 | 20 | / |
| Lomking | 71 | 16 | / |
| Lianceng | 67 | 9 | / |
| Lonkeung | 67 | 1 | / |
| Longqing | 67 | 1 | / |
| Liangceng | 63 | 32 | / |
| Liancheng | 63 | 11 | / |
| Longching | 63 | 8 | / |
| Liangcheng | 59 | 8 | / |
| Lonceng | 57 | 12 | / |
| Loncheng | 53 | 13 | / |
| Lonkenke | 53 | 1 | / |
| Leingcing | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Lanking
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