Amege Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Amege Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 85 | 1:459,286 | 27,240 |
| Papua New Guinea | 22 | 1:370,624 | 48,900 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
Amege (17) may also be a first name.
Amege Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amege Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amege is borne by more people in Uganda than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amege? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,701,480th most frequently occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 63,369,964 people. The last name Amege occurs predominantly in Africa, where 78 percent of Amege reside; 74 percent reside in East Africa and 48 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Amege is also the 2,694,839th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 17 people.
This surname is most common in Uganda, where it is borne by 85 people, or 1 in 459,286. In Uganda it is mostly concentrated in: Zombo District, where 46 percent live, Hoima District, where 16 percent live and Arua District, where 14 percent live. Outside of Uganda this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 19 percent live and Nigeria, 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 Amege
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