Adekore Surname

3,141,416th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 39 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Adekore Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Adekore Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria211:8,435,369179,591
United States81:45,307,367917,113
England61:9,286,343223,652
Canada41:9,211,398321,528

Adekore Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Adekore Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Adekore is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Adekore? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 3,141,416th most numerous last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 186,860,152 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 54 percent of Adekore reside; 54 percent reside in West Africa and 54 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The surname Adekore is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 8,435,369. In Nigeria it is most common in: Oyo, where 38 percent are found, Ogun, where 33 percent are found and Lagos, where 19 percent are found. Barring Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 21 percent are found and England, where 15 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
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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 Adekore
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