Namaina Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Namaina Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 21 | 1:913,906 | 20,544 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Namaïna (1) are calculated separately.
Namaina (10) may also be a first name.
Namaina Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namaina Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Namaina is found most in Niger. It may occur in the variant forms: Namaïna. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Namaina? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,808,717th most commonly held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 151,823,873 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Namaina reside; 60 percent reside in West Africa and 44 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Namaina is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently occurring given name on earth, held by 10 people.
The surname Namaina is most frequently occurring in Niger, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 913,906. In Niger it is primarily found in: Dosso Region, where 86 percent are found, Niamey Capital District, where 5 percent are found and Tahoua Region, where 5 percent are found. Other than Niger this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and Nigeria, where 17 percent are found.
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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 Namaina
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