Amakere Surname

1,806,862nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 104 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Amakere Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Amakere Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1021:1,736,69463,540
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Amakere (28) may also be a first name.

Amakere Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Amakere Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Amakere is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Amakere? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,806,862nd most commonly used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 70,072,557 people. The surname Amakere occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Amakere reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,994,417th most frequently used first name in the world It is held by 28 people.

This surname is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 102 people, or 1 in 1,736,694. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Bayelsa, where 51 percent reside, Delta, where 21 percent reside and Kano, where 14 percent reside. Other than Nigeria Amakere occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

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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 Amakere
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