Ekete Surname
Approximately 2,207 people bear this surname
Ekete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,495 | 1:118,490 | 7,835 |
| DR Congo | 547 | 1:135,063 | 14,394 |
| Benin | 112 | 1:92,282 | 10,663 |
| Congo | 18 | 1:277,172 | 8,776 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Ekete (169) may also be a first name.
Ekete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekete Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ekete is most common in Nigeria. It may also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekete? popularity and diffusion
Ekete is the 191,038th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 3,302,014 people. The surname Ekete occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ekete live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ekete is also the 703,581st most commonly held first name at a global level, borne by 169 people.
Ekete is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,495 people, or 1 in 118,490. In Nigeria Ekete is most common in: Enugu, where 64 percent reside, Delta, where 9 percent reside and Rivers, where 4 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name occurs in 13 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 25 percent reside and Benin, where 5 percent reside.
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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 Ekete
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