Nkwai Surname
Approximately 199 people bear this surname
Nkwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 197 | 1:105,427 | 12,381 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
Nkwai (25) may also be a first name.
Nkwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nkwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nkwai is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nkwai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,189,614th most frequently used surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 36,620,834 people. The last name Nkwai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nkwai live; 99 percent live in Central Africa and 99 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,136,160th most widely held forename globally. It is borne by 25 people.
Nkwai is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 197 people, or 1 in 105,427. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Northwest Region, where 71 percent live, Southwest Region, where 17 percent live and Littoral Region, where 10 percent live. Excluding Cameroon it exists in one country. It is also common in South Africa, where 1 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Nkwai
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