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 last name Eweke has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Eweke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Eweke is the 582,776th most frequently held surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 13,545,624 people. It occurs mostly 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 frequent first name on earth, borne by 36 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 512 people, or 1 in 345,982. In Nigeria Eweke is most prevalent in: Bayelsa, where 44 percent live, Delta, where 27 percent live and Abia, where 11 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria Eweke exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 4 percent live and Cameroon, where 0 percent live.
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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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