Mbayah Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Mbayah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
Mbayah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mbayah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mbayah is most common in Nigeria. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mbayah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,798,600th most widely held last name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Mbayah live; 41 percent live in West Africa and 41 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 16,103,887. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Borno, where 100 percent reside. Beside Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 19 percent reside and Kenya, where 19 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
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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
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