Nicodemas Surname

246,275th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,615 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Nicodemas Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nicodemas Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania1,5891:33,3183,914
Papua New Guinea111:741,24783,447
Nigeria31:59,047,586507,603
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States241:2,092,445103,667

Nicodemas (2,736) may also be a first name.

Nicodemas Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Nicodemas Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Nicodemas is more frequently found in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Nicodemas click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Nicodemas? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 246,275th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 4,512,412 people. The surname Nicodemas occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nicodemas reside; 98 percent reside in East Africa and 98 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 139,785th most frequently occurring first name on earth, borne by 2,736 people.

The last name is most frequently used in Tanzania, where it is held by 1,589 people, or 1 in 33,318. In Tanzania Nicodemas is primarily concentrated in: Geita Region, where 20 percent reside, Mwanza Region, where 19 percent reside and Arusha Region, where 10 percent reside. Besides Tanzania it occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent reside and Nigeria, where 0 percent reside.

Nicodemas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Nicodemas has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Nicodemas last name declined 92 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Nicodemas
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