Chekwube Surname
Approximately 366 people bear this surname
Chekwube Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 354 | 1:500,403 | 24,988 |
| Brazil | 8 | 1:26,759,292 | 405,030 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chekwube (8,553) may also be a first name.
Chekwube Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chekwube Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chekwube is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chekwube? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chekwube is the 775,315th most frequent family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 19,911,328 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Chekwube are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Chekwube is also the 68,047th most commonly held given name on earth, borne by 8,553 people.
Chekwube is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 354 people, or 1 in 500,403. In Nigeria Chekwube is mostly found in: Delta, where 24 percent are found, Enugu, where 23 percent are found and Lagos, where 10 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 2 percent are found and England, 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 Chekwube
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