Nkanika Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Nkanika Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda | 49 | 1:231,938 | 1,267 |
| Uganda | 43 | 1:907,890 | 40,955 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nkanika Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkanika Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nkanika is found most frequently in Rwanda. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nkanika.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkanika? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,465,390th most frequently used surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 50,258,937 people. Nkanika occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Nkanika reside; 63 percent reside in East Africa and 63 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
Nkanika is most frequently occurring in Rwanda, where it is held by 49 people, or 1 in 231,938. Outside of Rwanda it exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 30 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 28 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
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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 Nkanika
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