Adekah Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Adekah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Adekah (37) may also be a first name.
Adekah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adekah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Adekah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺩﻛﺎﻩ) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Adekah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 5,057,639th most frequent family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 485,836,394 people. The surname Adekah is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Adekah live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Adekah is also the 1,688,769th most common first name throughout the world, held by 37 people.
This last name is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Benue, where 79 percent are found, Nasarawa, where 7 percent are found and Ogun, where 7 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Adekah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adekah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺩﻛﺎﻩ | adkah | - |
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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 Adekah
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