Mal Garba Surname

1,620,164th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 124 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Niger

Mal Garba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mal Garba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1041:1,703,29662,619
Niger201:959,60121,357

Mal Garba Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mal Garba Come From? nationality or country of origin

Mal Garba is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mal Garba? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,620,164th most frequently held last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 58,770,532 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mal Garba reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 84 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 104 people, or 1 in 1,703,296. In Nigeria Mal Garba is mostly concentrated in: Sokoto, where 28 percent live, Zamfara, where 23 percent live and Yobe, where 21 percent live. Beside Nigeria this surname is found in one country. It is also common in Niger, where 16 percent live.

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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 Mal Garba
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