Eteke Surname
Approximately 1,100 people bear this surname
Eteke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 323 | 1:240,933 | 16,887 |
| Nigeria | 195 | 1:908,424 | 39,344 |
| DR Congo | 185 | 1:399,349 | 33,942 |
| Cameroon | 184 | 1:112,875 | 13,089 |
| Indonesia | 163 | 1:811,345 | 61,613 |
| Niger | 34 | 1:564,471 | 14,312 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Etéké (1) are calculated separately.
Eteke (36) may also be a first name.
Eteke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Eteke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Eteke has its highest incidence in Turkey. It can appear as a variant: Etéké. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Eteke? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 335,329th most frequent surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 6,625,042 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 55 percent of Eteke live; 34 percent live in Central Africa and 34 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Eteke is also the 1,717,090th most common first name worldwide, held by 36 people.
This surname is most numerous in Turkey, where it is borne by 323 people, or 1 in 240,933. In Turkey it is most common in: Diyarbakir Province, where 39 percent are found, Istanbul Province, where 27 percent are found and Izmir Province, where 7 percent are found. Not including Turkey it occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 18 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 17 percent are found.
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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 Eteke
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