Adenitan Surname

758,524th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 377 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Iceland

Adenitan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Adenitan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3731:474,91423,911
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
Iceland11:380,09011,096

Adenitan (35) may also be a first name.

Adenitan Last Name Facts

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

The surname Adenitan occurs most in Nigeria. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Adenitan click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Adenitan? popularity and diffusion

Adenitan is the 758,524th most common last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 19,330,361 people. The surname Adenitan occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Adenitan reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,744,716th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 35 people.

The surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 373 people, or 1 in 474,914. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Ondo, where 27 percent reside, Lagos, where 21 percent reside and Osun, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.

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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 Adenitan
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