Bankah Surname
Approximately 513 people bear this surname
Bankah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Bankah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bankah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bankah occurs most in Ghana. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bankah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 604,614th most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 14,205,743 people. The surname Bankah is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bankah reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most numerous in Ghana, where it is carried by 485 people, or 1 in 55,713. Barring Ghana this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 3 percent reside and Liberia, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Bankah
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