Nwamaka Surname
Approximately 420 people bear this surname
Nwamaka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 409 | 1:433,112 | 22,320 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Nwamaka (14,510) may also be a first name.
Nwamaka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwamaka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nwamaka is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwamaka? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 701,000th most frequent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 17,351,300 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Nwamaka live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 47,484th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 14,510 people.
The last name Nwamaka is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 409 people, or 1 in 433,112. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Delta, where 42 percent reside, Lagos, where 11 percent reside and Abia, where 9 percent reside. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Nwamaka
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