Quanah Surname
Approximately 69 people bear this surname
Quanah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 65 | 1:67,824 | 5,810 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Quanah (293) may also be a first name.
Quanah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Quanah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Quanah is more frequently found in Liberia than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Quanah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,293,424th most frequently occurring last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 105,616,607 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Quanah reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 515,650th most widely held forename worldwide, held by 293 people.
It is most commonly held in Liberia, where it is borne by 65 people, or 1 in 67,824. In Liberia Quanah is most frequent in: Bong County, where 45 percent live, Montserrado County, where 28 percent live and Margibi County, where 14 percent live. Excluding Liberia it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 3 percent live and Ghana, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Quanah
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