Nchifor Surname
Approximately 209 people bear this surname
Nchifor Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 194 | 1:107,057 | 12,544 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nchifor Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nchifor Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nchifor is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nchifor? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,148,257th most frequently held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 34,868,641 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nchifor reside; 93 percent reside in Central Africa and 93 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 194 people, or 1 in 107,057. In Cameroon Nchifor is most prevalent in: Northwest Region, where 65 percent are found, Centre Region, where 12 percent are found and Southwest Region, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 7 percent are found and South Africa, where 0 percent are found.
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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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