Nwonkwo Surname

578,557th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 543 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Nwonkwo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nwonkwo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria5421:326,83217,905
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002

Nwonkwo (22) may also be a first name.

Nwonkwo Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Nwonkwo Come From? nationality or country of origin

Nwonkwo occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Nwonkwo click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Nwonkwo? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 578,557th most commonly used family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 13,420,895 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nwonkwo live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nwonkwo is also the 2,301,746th most frequently held forename globally. It is borne by 22 people.

The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 542 people, or 1 in 326,832. In Nigeria Nwonkwo is mostly found in: Rivers, where 53 percent live, Ebonyi, where 12 percent live and Abia, where 6 percent live. Not including Nigeria Nwonkwo is found in one country. It is also found in Scotland, where 0 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 Nwonkwo
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