Ngavan Surname
Approximately 200 people bear this surname
Ngavan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 198 | 1:894,660 | 38,889 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Ngavan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngavan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngavan is found most in Nigeria. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngavan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,185,157th most frequent last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 36,437,730 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngavan are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Ngavan is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 198 people, or 1 in 894,660. In Nigeria Ngavan is most common in: Benue, where 67 percent live, Taraba, where 32 percent live and Nasarawa, where 1 percent live. Besides Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent live and India, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ngavan
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