Nchani Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Nchani Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 25 | 1:830,763 | 57,125 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Nchani (49) may also be a first name.
Nchani Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nchani Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nchani is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Nchani click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nchani? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,730,171st most frequently occurring family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nchani are found; 89 percent are found in Central Africa and 89 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,430,306th most commonly occurring first name in the world It is held by 49 people.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 830,763. In Cameroon Nchani is mostly found in: Northwest Region, where 96 percent live and West Region, where 4 percent live. Aside from Cameroon it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 7 percent live and Kenya, where 4 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 Nchani
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