Pakama Surname

593,568th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 525 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Pakama Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pakama Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1491:1,188,87848,183
India1401:5,479,038132,955
DR Congo681:1,086,46468,260
Zimbabwe641:241,22226,284
South Africa471:1,152,71766,933
Benin201:516,78033,864
Cameroon141:1,483,50583,777
Thailand91:7,848,705447,191
Indonesia71:18,892,742520,071
Papua New Guinea41:2,038,429140,827
Zambia21:7,924,96145,994
Congo11:4,989,09634,171

Pakama (2,381) may also be a first name.

Pakama Last Name Facts

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

Pakama (Marathi: पकमा) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pakama? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 593,568th most frequently held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 13,881,040 people. The surname Pakama is predominantly found in Africa, where 70 percent of Pakama live; 35 percent live in West Africa and 32 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Pakama is also the 152,184th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 2,381 people.

The surname Pakama is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 149 people, or 1 in 1,188,878. In Nigeria Pakama is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 48 percent live, Niger, where 44 percent live and Rivers, where 4 percent live. Outside of Nigeria it occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in India, where 27 percent live and The DR Congo, where 13 percent live.

Pakama Last Name Statistics demography

Pakama earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 79.47% less than the national average, earning R 48,792 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Pakama Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pakama in the Marathi language
पकमाpakama-

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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 Pakama
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