Wapka Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Wapka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wapka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wapka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wapka is most common in Nigeria. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wapka? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,798,600th most commonly held last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The surname Wapka is mostly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Wapka live; 63 percent live in West Africa and 63 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Wapka is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 10,420,162. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Plateau, where 82 percent are found and Ogun, where 18 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 19 percent are found and Estonia, where 4 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 Wapka
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