Adekanye Surname
Approximately 9,389 people bear this surname
Adekanye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 9,270 | 1:19,109 | 1,767 |
| England | 44 | 1:1,266,320 | 57,817 |
| United States | 43 | 1:8,429,278 | 367,833 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Adekanye (248) may also be a first name.
Adekanye Demographics
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Adekanye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adekanye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adekanye is most common in Nigeria. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Adekanye? popularity and diffusion
Adekanye is the 54,240th most common last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 776,179 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Adekanye are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Adekanye is also the 566,287th most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 248 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is held by 9,270 people, or 1 in 19,109. In Nigeria Adekanye is most numerous in: Ondo, where 25 percent are found, Lagos, where 17 percent are found and Osun, where 17 percent are found. Barring Nigeria it is found in 21 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
Adekanye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is chiefly Christian (88%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Adekanye last name are 28.59% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 81.82% being registered with the political party.
Adekanye earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 10.08% more than the national average, earning $47,500 USD per year.
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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
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