Ekpende Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Ekpende 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 |
Ekpende Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekpende Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ekpende occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Ekpende.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekpende? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ekpende is the 2,352,516th most commonly occurring surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ekpende reside; 68 percent reside in West Africa and 68 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Ekpende is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 3,936,506. In Nigeria Ekpende is most frequent in: Benue, where 82 percent reside, Oyo, where 13 percent reside and Ogun, where 2 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 32 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 Ekpende
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