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 is held by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Polakanya? popularity and diffusion
Polakanya is the 1,683,218th most commonly held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 62,286,717 people. The last name Polakanya is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Polakanya reside; 98 percent reside in Southern Africa and 98 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Polakanya is most commonly held in Zambia, where it is carried by 115 people, or 1 in 137,825. In Zambia it is most prevalent in: North-Western Province, where 79 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 20 percent live and Northern Province, where 1 percent live. Not including Zambia Polakanya is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 1 percent live and India, where 1 percent live.
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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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