Ameko Surname
Approximately 3,660 people bear this surname
Ameko Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 2,632 | 1:10,266 | 1,368 |
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| DR Congo | 144 | 1:513,053 | 40,658 |
| Latvia | 73 | 1:28,083 | 4,296 |
| Papua New Guinea | 60 | 1:135,895 | 18,658 |
| Uganda | 46 | 1:848,680 | 39,357 |
| Brazil | 21 | 1:10,194,016 | 213,214 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
Ameko (364) may also be a first name.
Ameko Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ameko Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ameko is most common in Ghana. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ameko? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 124,538th most frequent surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,991,133 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Ameko are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 90 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 456,229th most commonly held forename on earth. It is borne by 364 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Ghana, where it is held by 2,632 people, or 1 in 10,266. Besides Ghana this last name is found in 20 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 17 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 4 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 Ameko
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