Akewe Surname
Approximately 429 people bear this surname
Akewe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 262 | 1:39,449 | 5,069 |
| Nigeria | 116 | 1:1,527,093 | 57,948 |
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Akewe (122) may also be a first name.
Akewe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akewe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Akewe is found most frequently in Benin. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Akewe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 689,921st most frequent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 16,987,287 people. The surname Akewe is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Akewe reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 88 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 844,248th most commonly held first name world-wide. It is borne by 122 people.
The surname Akewe is most commonly used in Benin, where it is held by 262 people, or 1 in 39,449. In Benin Akewe is most frequent in: Donga Department, where 54 percent live, Plateau Department, where 23 percent live and Borgou Department, where 16 percent live. Apart from Benin this last name is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 27 percent live and Cameroon, where 10 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
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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 Akewe
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