Nwambu Surname
Approximately 985 people bear this surname
Nwambu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 980 | 1:180,758 | 11,106 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nwambu (46) may also be a first name.
Nwambu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwambu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nwambu is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwambu? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 366,000th most common family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 7,398,524 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nwambu reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,484,914th most frequent given name on earth. It is borne by 46 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 980 people, or 1 in 180,758. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Abia, where 62 percent reside, Rivers, where 8 percent reside and Enugu, where 6 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent reside and Norway, where 0 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
- 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 Nwambu
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