Polakanya Surname
Approximately 117 people bear this surname
Polakanya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 115 | 1:137,825 | 10,109 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Polakanya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polakanya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Polakanya occurs most in Zambia. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Polakanya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Polakanya is the 1,683,218th most frequently held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 62,286,717 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Polakanya live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most widely held in Zambia, where it is held by 115 people, or 1 in 137,825. In Zambia Polakanya is most frequent in: North-Western Province, where 79 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 20 percent are found and Northern Province, where 1 percent are found. Aside from Zambia Polakanya is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and India, where 1 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
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