Egonwa Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Egonwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Egonwa (27) may also be a first name.
Egonwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Egonwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Egonwa is most common in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Egonwa.
How Common Is The Last Name Egonwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,427,875th most commonly used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Egonwa live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly held forename world-wide. It is borne by 27 people.
The last name Egonwa is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 19 people, or 1 in 9,323,303. In Nigeria Egonwa is most numerous in: Enugu, where 53 percent are found, Rivers, where 26 percent are found and Lagos, where 11 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogonwa | 83 | 202 | / |
| Agonwa | 83 | 7 | / |
| Egunwa | 83 | 1 | / |
| Eganwa | 83 | 1 | / |
| Egonwi | 83 | 1 | / |
| Agounwa | 77 | 1 | / |
| Aigonwa | 77 | 1 | / |
| Egonwie | 77 | 1 | / |
| Eugonwie | 71 | 1 | / |
| Ogonua | 67 | 29 | / |
| Egomba | 67 | 25 | / |
| Aganwa | 67 | 19 | / |
| Oganwa | 67 | 7 | / |
| Agonva | 67 | 4 | / |
| Iganwa | 67 | 4 | / |
| Igunwa | 67 | 4 | / |
| Agonwo | 67 | 3 | / |
| Igonwe | 67 | 2 | / |
| Egunwe | 67 | 2 | / |
| Egumwa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Engounwei | 67 | 1 | / |
| Egunwi | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ogonwo | 67 | 1 | / |
| Egunba | 67 | 1 | / |
| Eganba | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Egonwa
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