Akobe Surname
Approximately 2,582 people bear this surname
Akobe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,569 | 1:14,704 | 1,167 |
| Nigeria | 761 | 1:232,776 | 13,588 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96 | 1:84,935 | 11,249 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Suriname | 26 | 1:21,254 | 4,689 |
| Cameroon | 20 | 1:1,038,453 | 65,513 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Uganda | 9 | 1:4,337,698 | 99,715 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Akobé (5) are calculated separately.
Akobe (639) may also be a first name.
Akobe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akobe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Akobe is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered as a variant: Akobé. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Akobe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 167,491st most widely held family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,822,442 people. Akobe is mostly found in Africa, where 70 percent of Akobe live; 65 percent live in West Africa and 65 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 329,113th most commonly held first name at a global level. It is borne by 639 people.
This surname is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,569 people, or 1 in 14,704. In The Ivory Coast Akobe is most frequent in: Lagunes District, where 51 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 41 percent live and Comoé District, where 3 percent live. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 29 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 4 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 Akobe
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