Echika Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Echika Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 21 | 1:8,435,369 | 179,591 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
Echika (429) may also be a first name.
Echika Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echika Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Echika is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Echika? popularity and diffusion
The surname Echika is the 3,100,440th most frequently held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Echika live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 414,511th most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 429 people.
This surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 21 people, or 1 in 8,435,369. In Nigeria Echika is most common in: Abia, where 48 percent live, Rivers, where 29 percent live and Lagos, where 19 percent live. Not including Nigeria Echika exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 28 percent live and Niger, where 15 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 Echika
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