Akange Surname
Approximately 2,207 people bear this surname
Akange Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2,116 | 1:83,716 | 5,915 |
| Cameroon | 62 | 1:334,985 | 30,391 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Akange (329) may also be a first name.
Akange Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akange Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Akange (Marathi: एकांगे) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Akange? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 191,038th most frequent last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 3,302,014 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Akange reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Akange is also the 483,360th most frequently used given name on earth, borne by 329 people.
It is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 2,116 people, or 1 in 83,716. In Nigeria Akange is mostly concentrated in: Benue, where 88 percent live, Taraba, where 5 percent live and Federal Capital Territory, where 2 percent live. Aside from Nigeria it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 3 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Akange Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Akange in the Marathi language | ||
| एकांगे | ekange | - |
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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 Akange
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