Wakanai Surname
Approximately 396 people bear this surname
Wakanai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 395 | 1:134,029 | 12,481 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Wakanai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakanai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wakanai is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakanai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wakanai is the 731,961st most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 18,402,894 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Wakanai live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The last name is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 395 people, or 1 in 134,029. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Tanga Region, where 76 percent reside and Dar es Salaam Region, where 24 percent reside. Apart from Tanzania this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in Kenya, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Wakanai
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