Eteme Surname
Approximately 5,628 people bear this surname
Eteme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 5,404 | 1:3,843 | 458 |
| Nigeria | 122 | 1:1,451,990 | 55,913 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Etémé (2) & Étémé (2) are calculated separately.
Eteme (470) may also be a first name.
Eteme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Eteme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Eteme is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Etémé or Étémé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Eteme? popularity and diffusion
It is the 85,693rd most widespread last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,294,873 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Eteme reside; 96 percent reside in Central Africa and 91 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 392,739th most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 470 people.
Eteme is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 5,404 people, or 1 in 3,843. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 80 percent are found, South Region, where 7 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 7 percent are found. Beside Cameroon Eteme occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 2 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 1 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
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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
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