Abige Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Abige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 27 | 1:6,560,843 | 154,927 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Abige (114) may also be a first name.
Abige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Abige Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Abige is found most in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Abige? popularity and diffusion
Abige is the 3,017,195th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 173,512,998 people. The surname Abige occurs predominantly in Africa, where 69 percent of Abige live; 64 percent live in West Africa and 64 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Abige is also the 877,214th most frequently held first name worldwide, held by 114 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 27 people, or 1 in 6,560,843. In Nigeria Abige is mostly found in: Benue, where 33 percent are found, Federal Capital Territory, where 33 percent are found and Nasarawa, where 11 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 29 percent are found and Cameroon, where 5 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
- 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 Abige
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