Azende Surname
Approximately 487 people bear this surname
Azende Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 418 | 1:423,787 | 21,950 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
The alternate forms: Azendé (1) are calculated separately.
Azende (104) may also be a first name.
Azende Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Azende Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Azende is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Azendé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Azende? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 628,294th most widely held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 14,964,160 people. The last name Azende is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Azende are found; 86 percent are found in West Africa and 86 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 925,156th most commonly occurring forename in the world, held by 104 people.
The surname Azende is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 418 people, or 1 in 423,787. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Benue, where 84 percent reside, Nasarawa, where 10 percent reside and Edo, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 14 percent reside and Ecuador, where 0 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 Azende
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