Nambas Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Nambas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 52 | 1:156,802 | 21,647 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
The alternate forms: Nambaş (7) are calculated separately.
Nambas (41) may also be a first name.
Nambas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nambas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nambas is carried by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Nambaş. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nambas.
How Common Is The Last Name Nambas? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,372,517th most widespread surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. This last name is primarily found in Oceania, where 80 percent of Nambas live; 80 percent live in Oceania Islands and 80 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Nambas is also the 1,590,275th most widespread first name on earth, borne by 41 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 52 people, or 1 in 156,802. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: Morobe, where 65 percent live, East New Britain, where 21 percent live and Madang, where 12 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea Nambas exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 12 percent live and Uganda, where 3 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 Nambas
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