Agbeze Surname
Approximately 1,672 people bear this surname
Agbeze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 902 | 1:196,389 | 11,809 |
| Togo | 735 | 1:9,861 | 2,446 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Agbeze (113) may also be a first name.
Agbeze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Agbeze Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Agbeze is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Agbeze? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 239,503rd most widely held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 4,358,580 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Agbeze reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Agbeze is also the 881,625th most commonly used given name at a global level, held by 113 people.
This last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 902 people, or 1 in 196,389. In Nigeria Agbeze is most common in: Ebonyi, where 52 percent live, Abia, where 14 percent live and Lagos, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria it occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 44 percent live and England, where 1 percent live.
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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 Agbeze
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