Pkanan Surname
Approximately 101 people bear this surname
Pkanan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 98 | 1:471,223 | 24,622 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Pkanan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pkanan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pkanan is more commonly found in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pkanan? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pkanan is the 1,839,022nd most frequently used surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 72,153,920 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Pkanan live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Kenya, where it is held by 98 people, or 1 in 471,223. In Kenya it is most common in: West Pokot County, where 99 percent reside and Trans Nzoia County, where 1 percent reside. Beside Kenya Pkanan exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent reside and Malaysia, where 1 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 Pkanan
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