Nkhama Surname
Approximately 399 people bear this surname
Nkhama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 235 | 1:72,847 | 9,384 |
| Tanzania | 117 | 1:452,492 | 31,593 |
| Zambia | 32 | 1:495,310 | 22,215 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Lesotho | 3 | 1:677,519 | 19,546 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Nkhama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkhama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nkhama is more frequently found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkhama? popularity and diffusion
It is the 727,600th most commonly used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 18,264,526 people. Nkhama occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nkhama live; 69 percent live in Southern Africa and 69 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Nkhama is most common in Malawi, where it is carried by 235 people, or 1 in 72,847. Outside of Malawi Nkhama exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 29 percent live and Zambia, where 8 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
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