Echegi Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Echegi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 227 | 1:780,365 | 35,035 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
Echegi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echegi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Echegi occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Echegi? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,073,555th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 31,547,818 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Echegi live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Echegi is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 227 people, or 1 in 780,365. In Nigeria Echegi is most common in: Kogi, where 28 percent live, Enugu, where 23 percent live and Abia, where 7 percent live. Barring Nigeria Echegi occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and Belize, where 0 percent live.
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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 Echegi
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