Legnan Surname
Approximately 113 people bear this surname
Legnan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 110 | 1:209,738 | 8,837 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Legnan (249) may also be a first name.
Legnan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Legnan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Legnan occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Legnan? popularity and diffusion
Legnan is the 1,718,748th most commonly used surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 64,491,557 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 69 percent of Legnan live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Legnan is also the 565,047th most frequently occurring given name in the world, held by 249 people.
The surname Legnan is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 110 people, or 1 in 209,738. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 69 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 29 percent reside and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 2 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 1 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
Legnan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Legnan has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Legnan last name fell 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Legnan
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