Eweke Surname
Approximately 538 people bear this surname
Eweke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 512 | 1:345,982 | 18,736 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Eweke (36) may also be a first name.
Eweke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Eweke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Eweke occurs most in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Eweke? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 582,776th most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 13,545,624 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Eweke live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,717,090th most commonly held first name internationally, borne by 36 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 512 people, or 1 in 345,982. In Nigeria Eweke is primarily found in: Bayelsa, where 44 percent reside, Delta, where 27 percent reside and Abia, where 11 percent reside. Besides Nigeria it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 4 percent reside and Cameroon, where 0 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 Eweke
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