Nyanye Surname
Approximately 108 people bear this surname
Nyanye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 99 | 1:155,942 | 19,667 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nyanye (76) may also be a first name.
Nyanye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyanye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nyanye is more commonly found in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nyanye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyanye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,765,740th most common surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 67,477,277 people. Nyanye is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Nyanye are found; 94 percent are found in Southern Africa and 94 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Nyanye is also the 1,107,702nd most widely held given name internationally, borne by 76 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 99 people, or 1 in 155,942. In Zimbabwe it is mostly concentrated in: Mashonaland West Province, where 35 percent reside, Mashonaland Central Province, where 23 percent reside and Harare Province, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Zimbabwe this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 4 percent reside and South Africa, where 2 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 Nyanye
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