Ekenyem Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Ekenyem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Ekenyem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekenyem Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ekenyem is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekenyem? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,274,477th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ekenyem live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Ekenyem is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 35 people, or 1 in 5,061,222. In Nigeria Ekenyem is most frequent in: Lagos, where 80 percent are found, Rivers, where 14 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 3 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria this surname exists in one country. It is also found in Ghana, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Ekenyem
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