Nahassan Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Nahassan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
Nahassan (13) may also be a first name.
Nahassan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nahassan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nahassan occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nahassan? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,908,606th most frequent surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Nahassan live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nahassan is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name at a global level, held by 13 people.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria Nahassan is most common in: Sokoto, where 50 percent reside, Niger, where 43 percent reside and Yobe, where 7 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 6 percent reside and Sudan, 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 Nahassan
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