Nkpon Surname

2,273,756th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 70 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Nkpon Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nkpon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria691:2,567,28683,988
Benin11:10,335,602103,742

Nkpon (13) may also be a first name.

Nkpon Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Nkpon Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Nkpon is most common in Nigeria. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Nkpon? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,273,756th most common last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. The last name Nkpon occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkpon live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nkpon is also the 3,159,357th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 13 people.

The last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 69 people, or 1 in 2,567,286. In Nigeria Nkpon is primarily concentrated in: Rivers, where 74 percent are found, Akwa Ibom, where 19 percent are found and Ogun, where 6 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name is found in one country. It is also found in Benin, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Nkpone9148/
Nkpan8044/
Nkpom802/
Nkpune7332/
Nkpane738/
Nnkpan733/
Ngpong731/
N'Kpan731/
Nkpoum731/
Nkpaane676/
N'Kpatin621/
Ngpan601/
N'Kpam551/

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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 Nkpon
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