Echai Surname
Approximately 89 people bear this surname
Echai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 60 | 1:346,151 | 31,109 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 1:1,228,926 | 53,021 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Echai (71) may also be a first name.
Echai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Echai is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Echai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,980,395th most frequently used surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 81,882,538 people. Echai occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Echai live; 67 percent live in Central Africa and 67 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,152,838th most frequent forename globally It is held by 71 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 60 people, or 1 in 346,151. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Northwest Region, where 67 percent reside, Southwest Region, where 28 percent reside and Centre Region, where 2 percent reside. Barring Cameroon this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 27 percent reside and Uganda, where 2 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 Echai
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