Nwamkwo Surname
Approximately 123 people bear this surname
Nwamkwo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 119 | 1:1,488,595 | 56,907 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nwamkwo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwamkwo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nwamkwo occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwamkwo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nwamkwo is the 1,628,521st most commonly used surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 59,248,341 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nwamkwo live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 119 people, or 1 in 1,488,595. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Enugu, where 24 percent are found, Ebonyi, where 17 percent are found and Lagos, where 15 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent are found and The Gambia, where 1 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 Nwamkwo
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