Ekiti Surname
Approximately 322 people bear this surname
Ekiti Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 155 | 1:1,142,857 | 46,821 |
| Cameroon | 147 | 1:141,286 | 15,748 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Ekiti (53) may also be a first name.
Ekiti Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekiti Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ekiti occurs most in Nigeria. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekiti? popularity and diffusion
It is the 849,693rd most common family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 22,632,130 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Ekiti live; 54 percent live in West Africa and 51 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ekiti is also the 1,366,219th most commonly used first name at a global level, held by 53 people.
The last name Ekiti is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 155 people, or 1 in 1,142,857. In Nigeria Ekiti is most frequent in: Rivers, where 58 percent live, Delta, where 28 percent live and Lagos, where 5 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 46 percent live and Benin, where 3 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
- 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 Ekiti
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