Egba Surname
Approximately 12,748 people bear this surname
Egba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 12,535 | 1:14,132 | 1,415 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Mauritania | 42 | 1:97,497 | 6,070 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| Benin | 31 | 1:333,407 | 26,304 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
The alternate forms: Egbá (1) are calculated separately.
Egba (1,350) may also be a first name.
Egba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Egba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Egba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻛﺐ) has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may also occur as a variant: Egbá. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Egba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 41,025th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 571,662 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Egba reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 213,554th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 1,350 people.
Egba is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 12,535 people, or 1 in 14,132. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Cross River, where 25 percent are found, Bayelsa, where 18 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 15 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name is found in 16 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and Mauritania, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Egba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Egba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻛﺐ | akb | 42.86 |
| ﺃﻛﺒﻪ | akbh | 28.57 |
| ﺍﻛﺒﻪ | akbh | 23.81 |
| ﺃﻛﺐ | akb | 4.76 |
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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 Egba
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