Echegwo Surname

1,073,555th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 231 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Echegwo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Echegwo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria2251:787,30135,295
South Africa41:13,544,426222,367
England11:55,718,059489,080
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Echegwo Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Echegwo Come From? nationality or country of origin

Echegwo is most common in Nigeria. It can occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Echegwo? popularity and diffusion

Echegwo is the 1,073,555th most common family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 31,547,818 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Echegwo live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 225 people, or 1 in 787,301. In Nigeria Echegwo is mostly found in: Enugu, where 32 percent are found, Abia, where 19 percent are found and Lagos, where 16 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 2 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Echigwo8623/
Echegwa865/
Echogwo862/
Echekwo861/
Echegbo861/
Echekwuo804/
Echegbuo804/
Eshengwo801/
Echeigbo801/
Ezegwo7735/
Ekegwo771/
Ichegbo71103/
Echigwa7111/
Echekwa716/
Ezeugwo715/
Ochogwo714/
Ichegwa711/
Ezeagwo711/
Ichigwo711/
Echegba711/
Achegwa711/
Echigbo711/
Ejeghwo711/
Ochigwo711/
Echingwa672/
Ocheikwo671/
Ochoekwo671/
Ichegbuo671/

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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
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  • 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 Echegwo
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