Nkpume Surname
Approximately 320 people bear this surname
Nkpume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 319 | 1:555,306 | 27,054 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Nkpume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkpume Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nkpume is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Nkpume click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkpume? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 853,416th most frequent family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 22,773,581 people. Nkpume occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkpume live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Nkpume is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 319 people, or 1 in 555,306. In Nigeria Nkpume is most numerous in: Enugu, where 36 percent are found, Edo, where 21 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Brazil, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Nkpume
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