Nkabi Surname

169,164th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,552 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Nkabi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nkabi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1,4221:38,1004,883
Congo3831:13,0261,665
Lesotho1691:12,0272,684
Zambia1691:93,7877,646
Uganda1621:240,98318,138
DR Congo1161:636,89347,292
Cameroon531:391,86933,952
Zimbabwe491:315,06631,156
Nigeria201:8,857,138186,571
India51:153,413,076951,030
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646

Nkabi (140) may also be a first name.

Nkabi Last Name Facts

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

Nkabi is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Nkabi? popularity and diffusion

Nkabi is the 169,164th most widespread family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 2,855,621 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkabi live; 71 percent live in Southern Africa and 71 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 781,395th most widespread given name at a global level, held by 140 people.

This surname is most commonly occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 1,422 people, or 1 in 38,100. In South Africa Nkabi is most common in: Eastern Cape, where 38 percent are found, Western Cape, where 21 percent are found and Gauteng, where 19 percent are found. Other than South Africa this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also common in The Congo, where 15 percent are found and Lesotho, where 7 percent are found.

Nkabi Last Name Statistics demography

Nkabi earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 51.89% less than the national average, earning R 114,324 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

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Nkabay731/
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Ngkobit672/
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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 Nkabi
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