Ekoya Surname
Approximately 552 people bear this surname
Ekoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 431 | 1:171,414 | 17,546 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Ivory Coast | 31 | 1:744,233 | 20,430 |
| India | 22 | 1:34,866,608 | 408,224 |
| Congo | 11 | 1:453,554 | 10,703 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Ekoya (10) may also be a first name.
Ekoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ekoya is found in The DR Congo more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekoya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ekoya is the 571,325th most frequently used last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,202,076 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 85 percent of Ekoya reside; 80 percent reside in Central Africa and 80 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Ekoya is also the 3,684,242nd most commonly used given name internationally. It is borne by 10 people.
The surname Ekoya is most frequently used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 431 people, or 1 in 171,414. Aside from The DR Congo this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 6 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 Ekoya
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