Najume Surname
Approximately 316 people bear this surname
Najume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 311 | 1:569,591 | 27,605 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
Najume (1,866) may also be a first name.
Najume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Najume Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Najume has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Najume.
How Common Is The Last Name Najume? popularity and diffusion
The surname Najume is the 860,770th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 23,061,854 people. Najume occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Najume live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 176,254th most common first name at a global level, borne by 1,866 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 311 people, or 1 in 569,591. In Nigeria Najume is most frequent in: Kano, where 32 percent live, Kaduna, where 25 percent live and Jigawa, where 24 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria Najume occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live and Uganda, where 1 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
- 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 Najume
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