Aketa Surname
Approximately 223 people bear this surname
Aketa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 75 | 1:2,361,903 | 79,171 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Papua New Guinea | 32 | 1:254,804 | 34,943 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| Congo | 11 | 1:453,554 | 10,703 |
| Japan | 10 | 1:12,784,429 | 45,945 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
Aketa (493) may also be a first name.
Aketa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aketa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Aketa (Hindi: अकेता, Marathi: एकेता, Oriya: ଅେକତା) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Aketa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,098,270th most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 32,679,578 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 74 percent of Aketa live; 36 percent live in Central Africa and 36 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 382,601st most frequently occurring first name on earth, borne by 493 people.
It is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 2,361,903. In Nigeria Aketa is primarily concentrated in: Kaduna, where 31 percent live, Benue, where 29 percent live and Adamawa, where 24 percent live. Besides Nigeria it exists in 16 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 22 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Aketa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aketa in the Oriya language | ||
| ଅେକତା | aekata | - |
| Aketa in the Hindi language | ||
| अकेता | aketa | 62.5 |
| एकता | ekata | 25 |
| आकेता | aketa | 6.25 |
| ाकेत | aketa | 6.25 |
| Aketa in the Marathi language | ||
| एकेता | eketa | 33.33 |
| आकेता | aketa | 33.33 |
| अकेटा | aketa | 33.33 |
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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 Aketa
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