Akinye Surname
Approximately 311 people bear this surname
Akinye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 307 | 1:577,012 | 27,888 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Akinye (11) may also be a first name.
Akinye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akinye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Akinye is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Akinye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 870,423rd most frequently held family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 23,432,624 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Akinye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Akinye is also the 3,487,849th most widespread forename on earth It is held by 11 people.
It is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 307 people, or 1 in 577,012. In Nigeria Akinye is primarily found in: Ondo, where 48 percent live, Lagos, where 21 percent live and Ogun, where 8 percent live. Apart from Nigeria it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 1 percent live and Ethiopia, where 0 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 Akinye
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