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Tanko (name)

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GenderMale

LanguageHausa

Word/nameNigeria

MeaningA boy born after several successive girls

Tanko
Origin
Gender	Male
Language	Hausa
Word/name	Nigeria
Meaning	A boy born after several successive girls
Region of origin	Northern-Nigeria

Tanko is a Nigerian masculine given name and surname of Hausa origin given to a boy born after many girls^[1]

Tanko Braimah (born 1979), Ghanaian sprinter
Tanko Dyakov (born 1984), Bulgarian football defender
Tanko Serafimov (1942–2013), Bulgarian architect
Tanko Yakasai (born 1925), Nigerian politician and human right activist
Tanko Zubairu, Nigerian military administrator

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