Atunku Surname
Approximately 135 people bear this surname
Atunku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 133 | 1:1,331,900 | 52,479 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Atunku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Atunku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Atunku is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Atunku? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,537,949th most frequently occurring surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 53,981,822 people. The last name Atunku occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Atunku are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 133 people, or 1 in 1,331,900. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Benue, where 71 percent are found, Taraba, where 12 percent are found and Nasarawa, where 9 percent are found. Besides Nigeria Atunku occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 1 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 Atunku
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