Nwakanama Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Nwakanama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Nwakanama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwakanama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nwakanama is found most in Nigeria. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nwakanama click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwakanama? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nwakanama is the 8,193,072nd most numerous family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The last name Nwakanama is mostly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Nwakanama reside; 80 percent reside in West Africa and 80 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 44,285,690. In Nigeria Nwakanama is mostly concentrated in: Abia, where 75 percent live and Kaduna, where 25 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Canada, where 20 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nwakanama
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