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) is most common in Nigeria. It can be rendered as a variant: Egbá. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Egba? popularity and diffusion
Egba is the 41,025th most widespread family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 571,662 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Egba live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 213,554th most widespread first name throughout the world It is held by 1,350 people.
The surname Egba is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 12,535 people, or 1 in 14,132. In Nigeria Egba is most common in: Cross River, where 25 percent live, Bayelsa, where 18 percent live and Ebonyi, where 15 percent live. Besides Nigeria Egba occurs in 16 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent live and Mauritania, where 0 percent live.
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
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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 Egba
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