Nkakan Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Nkakan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 23 | 1:7,701,859 | 170,290 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Nkakan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkakan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nkakan is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkakan? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nkakan is the 4,034,050th most commonly occurring last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkakan reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 23 people, or 1 in 7,701,859. In Nigeria Nkakan is most frequent in: Rivers, where 96 percent reside and Akwa Ibom, where 4 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name exists in one country. It is also found in Cameroon, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Nkakan
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