Nareka Surname
Approximately 119 people bear this surname
Nareka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 116 | 1:70,291 | 9,164 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Nareka (116) may also be a first name.
Nareka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nareka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nareka is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nareka? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,666,404th most commonly occurring last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 61,239,882 people. The surname is predominantly found in Oceania, where 98 percent of Nareka reside; 98 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 98 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Nareka is also the 868,627th most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 116 people.
The last name Nareka is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 116 people, or 1 in 70,291. In Papua New Guinea Nareka is mostly found in: Eastern Highlands, where 68 percent live, Morobe, where 31 percent live and West New Britain, where 1 percent live. Besides Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 1 percent live and Indonesia, where 1 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
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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 Nareka
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