Wangana Surname
Approximately 1,462 people bear this surname
Wangana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,382 | 1:53,458 | 6,444 |
| Papua New Guinea | 30 | 1:271,791 | 36,992 |
| Kenya | 13 | 1:3,552,300 | 39,474 |
| Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
| Uganda | 9 | 1:4,337,698 | 99,715 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Wangana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangana Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wangana is more commonly found in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangana? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wangana is the 267,252nd most widely held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 4,984,642 people. The surname Wangana occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Wangana are found; 95 percent are found in Central Africa and 95 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 1,382 people, or 1 in 53,458. Without taking into account The DR Congo Wangana exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found and Kenya, 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 Wangana
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