Ekimi Surname
Approximately 76 people bear this surname
Ekimi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 45 | 1:3,936,506 | 111,794 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
Ekimi (33) may also be a first name.
Ekimi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekimi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ekimi is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Ekimi.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekimi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ekimi is the 2,168,711th most frequent last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 95,888,762 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Ekimi reside; 59 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,807,719th most widely held given name world-wide. It is borne by 33 people.
It is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 45 people, or 1 in 3,936,506. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Bayelsa, where 47 percent live, Cross River, where 47 percent live and Delta, where 2 percent live. Apart from Nigeria it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 28 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent live.
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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 Ekimi
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