Nankawa Surname

1,263,456th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 182 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Nankawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nankawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan1791:714,21417,183
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679

Nankawa Last Name Facts

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

Nankawa (Hindi: नन्कवा) is most common in Japan. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Nankawa? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,263,456th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 40,041,461 people. The last name Nankawa is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Nankawa are found; 98 percent are found in East Asia and 98 percent are found in Nippono-Asia.

The last name Nankawa is most numerous in Japan, where it is held by 179 people, or 1 in 714,214. In Japan it is most frequent in: Kumamoto Prefecture, where 72 percent are found, Fukuoka Prefecture, where 20 percent are found and Aichi Prefecture, where 2 percent are found. Outside of Japan Nankawa is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 1 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Nankawah931/
Nankowa8614/
Nankava863/
Nankewa861/
Nonkawa861/
Nangkewa8024/
Nankaaba8011/
Nankaeva801/
Nongkawas752/
Nankova71908/
Nongkhawat7146/
Nankoba7142/
Nankabi7116/
Namkava719/
Namkawe713/
Nankowe713/
Nonkawe711/
Namkowa711/
Nankabo711/
Nongkawi67103/
Nankooba672/

Nankawa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Nankawa in the Hindi language
नन्कवाnankava50
ननकवाnanakava50

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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 Nankawa
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