Akpeya Surname
Approximately 62 people bear this surname
Akpeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 36 | 1:4,920,632 | 129,434 |
| Ivory Coast | 25 | 1:922,849 | 23,346 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Akpeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akpeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Akpeya is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Akpeya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,436,415th most frequent surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 117,541,063 people. The last name Akpeya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Akpeya live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Akpeya is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 4,920,632. In Nigeria Akpeya is most prevalent in: Akwa Ibom, where 56 percent are found, Delta, where 31 percent are found and Lagos, where 11 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 40 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Akpeya
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