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 held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms: Azendé. Click here to see other potential spellings of Azende.
How Common Is The Last Name Azende? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 628,294th most widespread family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 14,964,160 people. This last name occurs mostly 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. Azende is also the 925,156th most widespread first name world-wide. It is borne by 104 people.
It is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 418 people, or 1 in 423,787. In Nigeria it is most common in: Benue, where 84 percent are found, Nasarawa, where 10 percent are found and Edo, where 3 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 14 percent are found and Ecuador, where 0 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 Azende
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