Nkanna Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Nkanna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Nkanna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkanna Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nkanna is found most in Nigeria. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkanna? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nkanna is the 3,957,383rd most widespread family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 291,501,837 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Nkanna reside; 76 percent reside in West Africa and 76 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 19 people, or 1 in 9,323,303. In Nigeria Nkanna is primarily found in: Abia, where 42 percent live, Akwa Ibom, where 32 percent live and Rivers, where 16 percent live. Not including Nigeria this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 16 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
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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 Nkanna
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