Nkeleke Surname
Approximately 143 people bear this surname
Nkeleke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 140 | 1:35,636 | 3,457 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nkeleke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkeleke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nkeleke occurs more in The Congo more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nkeleke click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkeleke? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nkeleke is the 1,478,479th most widespread last name internationally, held by around 1 in 50,961,860 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkeleke reside; 99 percent reside in Central Africa and 99 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name is most widely held in The Congo, where it is held by 140 people, or 1 in 35,636. In The Congo it is most frequent in: Brazzaville Department, where 99 percent reside and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent reside. Not including The Congo it is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 1 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
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