Throughout the world, Nken (Nken 
) is a rare predominantly male, but scarcely female given name. The first name Nken is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Cameroon, where it is a rare boy's name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria, where it is a very rare epicene name. More prevalently, Nken is the last name as well as the forename.
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