Zakarai Surname
Approximately 1,473 people bear this surname
Zakarai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,297 | 1:136,579 | 8,813 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Niger | 11 | 1:1,744,729 | 34,351 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Zakarai (1,112) may also be a first name.
Zakarai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zakarai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zakarai occurs most in Nigeria. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Zakarai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 265,540th most frequently held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 4,947,417 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Zakarai reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 88 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 239,142nd most frequently occurring first name in the world It is held by 1,112 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,297 people, or 1 in 136,579. In Nigeria Zakarai is most prevalent in: Bauchi, where 59 percent are found, Jigawa, where 27 percent are found and Kano, where 9 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this surname exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 10 percent are found and Niger, 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 Zakarai
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