Adege Surname
Approximately 2,068 people bear this surname
Adege Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,771 | 1:55,080 | 5,737 |
| Nigeria | 183 | 1:967,993 | 41,230 |
| Uganda | 36 | 1:1,084,424 | 45,587 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Germany | 10 | 1:8,050,546 | 248,660 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Adege (2,272) may also be a first name.
Adege Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adege Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adege (Arabic: عديجي, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻋﺪﺝ, Marathi: आडेगे) is more commonly found in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adege? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 201,602nd most widely held surname globally, held by around 1 in 3,523,958 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Adege are found; 88 percent are found in East Africa and 86 percent are found in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 156,519th most frequently held first name on earth, borne by 2,272 people.
The surname Adege is most numerous in Ethiopia, where it is held by 1,771 people, or 1 in 55,080. Beside Ethiopia Adege is found in 16 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 9 percent live and Uganda, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Adege Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adege in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻋﺪﺝ | adj | - |
| Adege in the Marathi language | ||
| आडेगे | adege | - |
| Adege in the Arabic language | ||
| عديجي | dyjy | - |
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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 Adege
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