Edekere Surname

833,931st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 331 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Edekere Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Edekere Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3231:548,43026,767
England61:9,286,343223,652
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Edekere (13) may also be a first name.

Edekere Last Name Facts

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

The surname Edekere occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Edekere? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 833,931st most commonly occurring surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 22,016,755 people. The last name Edekere is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Edekere are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Edekere is also the 3,159,357th most frequent forename globally, borne by 13 people.

The last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 323 people, or 1 in 548,430. In Nigeria Edekere is most prevalent in: Edo, where 37 percent reside, Akwa Ibom, where 25 percent reside and Lagos, where 12 percent reside. Beside Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in England, where 2 percent reside and Lebanon, where 0 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
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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 Edekere
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