Ijegalu Surname
Approximately 508 people bear this surname
Ijegalu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 501 | 1:353,578 | 19,069 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ijegalu (14) may also be a first name.
Ijegalu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ijegalu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ijegalu is most common in Nigeria. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Ijegalu.
How Common Is The Last Name Ijegalu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ijegalu is the 609,110th most common family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 14,345,563 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ijegalu are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ijegalu is also the 3,024,661st most frequently used given name world-wide, held by 14 people.
The last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 501 people, or 1 in 353,578. In Nigeria Ijegalu is most frequent in: Enugu, where 68 percent are found, Federal Capital Territory, where 7 percent are found and Rivers, where 6 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 1 percent are found and South Africa, where 0 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ijegalu
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