Shikoya Surname
Approximately 30 people bear this surname
Shikoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 21 | 1:754,758 | 27,278 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Shikoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shikoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shikoya occurs most in Zambia. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Shikoya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shikoya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,602,217th most frequently used last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 242,918,197 people. Shikoya occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Shikoya are found; 70 percent are found in Southern Africa and 70 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Zambia, where it is held by 21 people, or 1 in 754,758. In Zambia Shikoya is most frequent in: North-Western Province, where 86 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 10 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 5 percent live. Apart from Zambia it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 27 percent live and The DR Congo, where 3 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shikoya
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