Amegashie Surname

52,247th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9,801 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ghana
Highest density in:
Ghana

Amegashie Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Amegashie Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ghana8,4511:3,197496
Togo8401:8,6282,051
Mali3231:52,5361,331
United States1191:3,045,873177,373
Liberia291:152,01810,911
England101:5,571,806158,774
Nigeria71:25,306,108327,793
Canada71:5,263,656239,735
Benin51:2,067,12068,069
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Monaco11:37,0664,748
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Amegashie Last Name Facts

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

The surname Amegashie is borne by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Amegashie? popularity and diffusion

Amegashie is the 52,247th most commonly occurring last name on earth, held by around 1 in 743,551 people. The surname Amegashie is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Amegashie reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The last name Amegashie is most widely held in Ghana, where it is borne by 8,451 people, or 1 in 3,197. Excluding Ghana this surname occurs in 16 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 9 percent live and Mali, where 3 percent live.

Amegashie Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Amegashie surname are 33.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 80% being registered with the political party.

Amegashie earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 59.25% more than the national average, earning $68,716 USD per year.

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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 Amegashie
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