Nanwe Surname
Approximately 106 people bear this surname
Nanwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 76 | 1:273,277 | 26,204 |
| Burkina Faso | 25 | 1:734,084 | 8,477 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Nanwe (17) may also be a first name.
Nanwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nanwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nanwe is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nanwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,785,358th most frequently used family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 68,750,433 people. The last name Nanwe occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nanwe are found; 71 percent are found in Central Africa and 71 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 17 people.
The surname Nanwe is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 76 people, or 1 in 273,277. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 96 percent reside, Northwest Region, where 3 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 1 percent reside. Barring Cameroon Nanwe occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 24 percent reside and Nigeria, where 2 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
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