Sankowa Surname
Approximately 163 people bear this surname
Sankowa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 161 | 1:98,447 | 7,911 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Sankowa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sankowa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sankowa is more commonly found in Zambia than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sankowa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sankowa is the 1,359,010th most frequently used last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 44,708,871 people. The surname Sankowa is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sankowa are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently held in Zambia, where it is carried by 161 people, or 1 in 98,447. In Zambia it is primarily concentrated in: North-Western Province, where 84 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 14 percent are found and Central Province, where 1 percent are found. Not including Zambia this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and Nigeria, 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sankowa
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