Nyakwa Surname
Approximately 87 people bear this surname
Nyakwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 30 | 1:692,302 | 50,404 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Zimbabwe | 15 | 1:1,029,216 | 63,831 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Nyakwa (19) may also be a first name.
Nyakwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyakwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nyakwa is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyakwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,007,164th most common surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 83,764,896 people. The last name Nyakwa occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyakwa reside; 66 percent reside in Central Africa and 66 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Nyakwa is also the 2,523,061st most numerous first name on earth It is held by 19 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 30 people, or 1 in 692,302. In Cameroon Nyakwa is most frequent in: Littoral Region, where 83 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 10 percent are found and Northwest Region, where 7 percent are found. Other than Cameroon it exists in 6 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 31 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 17 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 Nyakwa
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