Nambau Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Nambau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 22 | 1:370,624 | 48,900 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Nambau (11) may also be a first name.
Nambau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nambau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nambau occurs in Papua New Guinea more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nambau? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nambau is the 2,808,717th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 151,823,873 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 52 percent of Nambau live; 46 percent live in Oceania Islands and 46 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 3,487,849th most widely held first name in the world, borne by 11 people.
The surname Nambau is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 22 people, or 1 in 370,624. In Papua New Guinea Nambau is most numerous in: East Sepik, where 36 percent reside, National Capital District, where 36 percent reside and Morobe, where 23 percent reside. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 44 percent reside and Zambia, where 8 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nambau
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