Nignan Surname
Approximately 29,965 people bear this surname
Nignan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 29,752 | 1:617 | 84 |
| Ivory Coast | 174 | 1:132,593 | 6,418 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Nignan (145) may also be a first name.
Nignan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nignan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nignan is found in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nignan? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 18,400th most common family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 243,202 people. Nignan is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nignan reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nignan is also the 766,399th most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 145 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 29,752 people, or 1 in 617. In Burkina Faso it is mostly concentrated in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 78 percent are found, Centre Region, where 10 percent are found and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 7 percent are found. Barring Burkina Faso this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Canada, 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nignan
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