Ehijie Surname
Approximately 430 people bear this surname
Ehijie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 426 | 1:415,828 | 21,624 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ehijie (468) may also be a first name.
Ehijie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ehijie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ehijie occurs most in Nigeria. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ehijie? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ehijie is the 688,723rd most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 16,947,781 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ehijie live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ehijie is also the 393,633rd most frequent forename throughout the world, borne by 468 people.
Ehijie is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 426 people, or 1 in 415,828. In Nigeria Ehijie is most numerous in: Edo, where 66 percent live, Lagos, where 23 percent live and Delta, where 4 percent live. Besides Nigeria this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Ireland, where 0 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Ehijie
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis