Wakenge Surname
Approximately 380 people bear this surname
Wakenge Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 376 | 1:196,488 | 19,671 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Wakenge (83) may also be a first name.
Wakenge Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakenge Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wakenge is held by more people in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Wakenge.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakenge? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 754,238th most numerous last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 19,177,752 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Wakenge live; 99 percent live in Central Africa and 99 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Wakenge is also the 1,052,971st most common first name in the world, held by 83 people.
This last name is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 376 people, or 1 in 196,488. Outside of The DR Congo this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and Canada, where 0 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 Wakenge
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