Igwe Surname
Approximately 360,950 people bear this surname
Igwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 358,662 | 1:494 | 59 |
| United States | 681 | 1:532,245 | 44,270 |
| Ghana | 623 | 1:43,372 | 4,874 |
| England | 307 | 1:181,492 | 16,346 |
| Tanzania | 204 | 1:259,518 | 20,802 |
| South Africa | 108 | 1:501,645 | 40,799 |
| Uganda | 52 | 1:750,755 | 36,601 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Iceland | 26 | 1:14,619 | 1,259 |
| Ireland | 20 | 1:235,447 | 9,345 |
| Canada | 20 | 1:1,842,280 | 119,096 |
| Scotland | 17 | 1:314,930 | 14,413 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| France | 16 | 1:4,151,420 | 237,746 |
| India | 14 | 1:54,790,384 | 527,769 |
| Brazil | 13 | 1:16,467,256 | 295,032 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Poland | 6 | 1:6,334,792 | 156,558 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Czechia | 5 | 1:2,126,694 | 115,412 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Gambia | 4 | 1:480,863 | 548 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Liberia | 3 | 1:1,469,512 | 38,766 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
The alternate forms: Igwé (1) are calculated separately.
Igwe (20,569) may also be a first name.
Igwe Demographics
Average Male Igwe Height
175.25 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Igwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Igwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Igwe is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Igwé. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Igwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,493rd most commonly held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 20,190 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Igwe reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 37,033rd most frequent given name in the world It is held by 20,569 people.
Igwe is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 358,662 people, or 1 in 494. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Anambra, where 21 percent are found, Rivers, where 21 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 17 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria it occurs in 62 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent are found and Ghana, where 0 percent are found.
Igwe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Igwe last name is predominantly Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States Igwe are 42.82% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 96.05% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Igwe earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 23.66% less than the national average, earning R 181,416 per year; in United States they earn 1.71% more than the national average, earning $43,889 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.77% more than the national average, earning $55,530 CAD per year.
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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 Igwe
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