Wanneh Surname
Approximately 95 people bear this surname
Wanneh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 72 | 1:288,459 | 27,220 |
| Liberia | 16 | 1:275,533 | 16,331 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wanneh (112) may also be a first name.
Wanneh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wanneh Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wanneh is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wanneh? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wanneh is the 1,907,068th most prevalent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 76,711,010 people. The last name Wanneh is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Wanneh live; 76 percent live in Central Africa and 76 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Wanneh is also the 885,979th most frequently occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 112 people.
The last name Wanneh is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 72 people, or 1 in 288,459. In Cameroon Wanneh is most prevalent in: Northwest Region, where 65 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 15 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 14 percent are found. Barring Cameroon it is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 17 percent are found and Nigeria, where 6 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 Wanneh
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