Agoe Surname
Approximately 4,799 people bear this surname
Agoe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 2,976 | 1:13,118 | 2,137 |
| Ghana | 1,732 | 1:15,601 | 2,007 |
| Cameroon | 45 | 1:461,535 | 38,189 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Iran | 6 | 1:12,797,087 | 199,837 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Agoè (1) & Agoé (1) are calculated separately.
Agoe (64) may also be a first name.
Agoe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Agoe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Agoe is found in Uganda more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Agoè or Agoé. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Agoe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 98,766th most prevalent family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 1,518,555 people. Agoe occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Agoe live; 62 percent live in East Africa and 61 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Agoe is also the 1,223,525th most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 64 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Uganda, where it is carried by 2,976 people, or 1 in 13,118. In Uganda Agoe is mostly found in: Kumi District, where 28 percent reside, Serere District, where 17 percent reside and Bukedea District, where 15 percent reside. Besides Uganda this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in Ghana, where 36 percent reside and Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
Agoe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Agoe has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Agoe surname increased 400 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Agoe
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