Namku Surname

2,047,559th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 84 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Namku Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Namku Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria771:2,300,55577,632
India41:191,766,3461,073,940
Cameroon21:10,384,534165,830
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Namku (103) may also be a first name.

Namku Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Namku Come From? nationality or country of origin

Namku (Hindi: नम्कू, Marathi: नमकु, Tibetan: ནམ་ཀུ།) is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Namku? popularity and diffusion

The last name Namku is the 2,047,559th most frequently occurring surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 86,756,499 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Namku live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Namku is also the 930,172nd most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 103 people.

This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 77 people, or 1 in 2,300,555. In Nigeria Namku is most numerous in: Benue, where 100 percent reside. Other than Nigeria Namku occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in India, where 5 percent reside and Cameroon, where 2 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Namkuu914/
Namkau911/
Ngamkou834/
Ngamkui832/
Gnamkeu831/
Namkuha831/
Nomku8045/
Nemku8016/
Namcu807/
Ngnamkeu772/
Nemkuu738/
Nomkhu736/
Namkoo731/
Nomkou731/
Nomkuha679/
Ngoumkeu6211/
Ngoumkou622/
Nomkhoo501/
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Namku Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Namku in the Tibetan language
ནམ་ཀུ།namku-
Namku in the Marathi language
नमकुnamaku88.89
नामकूnamaku11.11
Namku in the Hindi language
नम्कूnamku66.67
नमकूnamaku33.33

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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 Namku
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