Emefiele Surname

268,560th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,453 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Emefiele Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Emefiele Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1,3771:128,6448,399
England281:1,989,93178,001
United States281:12,944,962483,512
South Africa131:4,167,516132,322
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Emefiele (51) may also be a first name.

Emefiele Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Emefiele Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Emefiele occurs most in Nigeria. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Emefiele? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 268,560th most frequently used last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,015,517 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Emefiele are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,396,783rd most prevalent forename on earth. It is borne by 51 people.

The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,377 people, or 1 in 128,644. In Nigeria Emefiele is mostly concentrated in: Delta, where 42 percent reside, Lagos, where 16 percent reside and Edo, where 11 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 2 percent reside.

Emefiele Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Emefiele surname is principally Christian (94%) in Nigeria.

The amount Emefiele earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 102.36% more than the national average, earning R 480,876 per year and in United States they earn 4.11% less than the national average, earning $41,375 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Emefile93123/
Emefele9349/
Emofiele884/
Emefiela881/
Emefule8015/
Amefile805/
Emefela802/
Amaefele752/
Emmafile752/
Amaefile751/
Amaefeule714/
Ahamefele711/
Omofele6721/
Ahamefeule678/
Ahamefeile673/
Amafele672/
Omafele671/
Imifela53137/
Amafili5357/

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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 Emefiele
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